CHAP. XIIII. What signes in the Plague are mortall.
IT is a most deadly signe in the Pestilence, to have a continuall and bur∣ning Feaver, to have the tongue dry, rough, and black, to breathe with difficulty, and to draw in a great quantity of breath, but breathe out lit∣tle; to talke idely; to have phrensie and madnesse together, with un∣quenchable thirst and great watching; to have Covulsions, the Hicket, heart-beating, and to swoune very often and vehemently; further, tossing and turning in the bed, with a loathing of meats, and daily vomits of a greene, blacke and bloudy colour; and the face pale, blacke, of a horrid and cruell aspect, bedewed with a cold sweat, are very mortall signes.
There are some which at the very beginning have ulcerous and painefull weari∣nesse, * 1.1 pricking under the skin, with great torment of paine; the eyes looke cruelly and staringly, the voyce waxeth hoarse, the tongue rough and stutting, and the un∣derstanding decaying, the Patient uttereth and talketh of frivolous things. Truely those are very dangerously sicke, no otherwise than those whose urine is pale, black, and troubled like unto the urine of carriage beasts, or Lye, with divers coloured clouds or contents, as blew, greene, black, fatty and oylie, as also resembling in shew a Spiders Web, with a round body swimming on the top.
If the flesh of the carbuncle be dry and blacke, as it were feared with a hotiron, if the flesh about it be blacke and blew, if the matter doe flow back, and turne in, if they have a laske with greatly stinking, liquid, thin, clammy, blacke, greene or blewish or∣dure; if they avoyd wormes by reason of the great corruption of the humours, and yet for all this the patient is never the better; if the eies waxe often dim, if the nostrils bee contracted or drawne together, if they have a grievous crampe, the mouth bee drawne aside, the muscles of the face being drawn or contracted equally or unequal∣ly; if the nailes be blacke; if they be often troubled with the Hicket, or have a Con∣vulsion and resolution over all the body, then you may certainly prognosticate that death is at hand, and you may use Cordiall medicines onely, but it is too late to purge or let bloud.