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Title:  A treatise of the plague contayning the causes, signes, symptomes, prognosticks, and cure thereof. Together with sundry other remarkable passages (for the prevention of, and preservation from the pestilence) never yet published by anie man. Collected out of the workes of the no lesse learned than experimented and renowned chirurgian Ambrose Parey.
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Pullets, Partriches, Pigeons, Thrushes, Larkes, Quailes, Blacke Birds, Turtle Doues, Moore Hennes, Phesants, and such like, auoyding Water Foules. Let the Flesh be moyst∣ned in Veriuyce of vn-ripe Grapes, Vineger, or the iuyce of Lemmons, Oranges, Cytrons, tart Pomegranats, Barbe∣ryes, Gooseberryes, or red Currance, or of Garden and wild Sorrell: for all these sowre things are verie whole∣some in this kind of Disease, for they doe stirre vp the appetite, resist the venomous qualitie and putrefaction of the humours, restraine the heat of the Feauer, and prohi∣bite the corruption of the meats in the stomacke. Although that those that haue a more weake stomacke▪ and are en∣dewed with a more exact sence, & are subiect to the Cough and Diseases of the Lungs, must not vse these vnlesse they be mixed with Sugar and Cynnamon.If the Patient at any time be fed with sodden Meats, let the Broathes be made with Lettuce, Purslaine, Succorie, Borage, Sorrell, Hoppes, Buglosse, Cresses, Burnet, Mari∣golds, Cheruill, the cooling Seeds, Barley and Oates clean∣sed, with a little Saffron, for Saffron doth engender many Spirits, and resisteth Poyson. To these opening Roots may be added for to auoyd obstruction; yet much Broath must be refused by reason of moysture. The Fruit of Capers be∣ing eaten in the beginning of the Meale prouoke the ap∣petite, and prohibite obstructions, but they ought not to be seasoned with ouer-much Oyle & Salt, they may also with good successe be put in Broathes.Fishes are altogether to be auoyded, because they doe soone corrupt in the Stomacke: but if the Patient be de∣lighted with them, those that liue in stony places must be chosen, that is to say, those that doe liue in pure and sandy Water, and about Rocks, and Stones, as are Trowts, Pikes, Pearches, Gudgions, and Crauises boiled in Milke, Wilks, and such like. And concerning Sea-Fish, he may be fed with Giltheads, Gurnarts, with all the kinds of Cod-fish, Whitings not seasoned with Salt, and Turbuts.Fagges potched and eaten with the iuyce of Sorrell, are 0