CHAP. XXXVI. Of sundry kinds of Evacuations, and first of sweating and vomiting.
THe pestilent malignity is not onely evacuated and sent forth by the erup∣tion * 1.1 of pustles and spots, but also by sweat, vomit, bleeding at nose, at the haemorrhoids, by the courses, a fluxe of the belly, and other wayes, so that nature by every kind of excretion may be freed from the deadly poyson, especially that which is not as yet arrived at the heart. But chiefe regard must be had * 1.2 to the inclination of nature, and wee must attend what way it chiefly aimes at, and what kind of excretion it affects. Yet such evacuations are not alwayes criticall, but usually symptomaticall, for that oft-times nature is so irritated by the untameable malignity of the matter, that it can no way digest it, but is forced by any meanes to send it away crude as it is. Wherefore if nature may seeme by the moystnesse of the * 1.3 skin, the suppression of urine, & other signes to affect a crisis and excretion by sweat, you then shall procure it by the formerly mentioned meanes. It is delivered by the Ancients that all sweats in acute diseases are salutary, which happen upon a Criticall day, which are universall and hot, and signified before the criticall day. But in this * 1.4 rapid and deadly disease of the Plague, wee must not expect a Crisis, but as soone as wee can, and by what meanes wee may to free nature from so dire and potent an e∣nemy.