or Ague, for a messenger, wherfore it were not amisse for any that hath young children, especially in times that are contagious and infectious, to be pre∣pared with remedies at hand, to fit such an unwel∣come guest, considering the medicine will keep its Vertue for more then seven yeeres.
Moreover, for the manner of the sweating in the small Pox, let it bee very wearily and gently, and with no more cloathes then will keepe the patients sweating, and defend them from taking cold, and deny not them warm posset-drinke in the time of their sweating.
Also, when any person is desirous to take the benefit of the aforesaid medicine, having an Ague, or Feaver, with paraxismes or fits, let him not take the medicine in the time of the fit, but one full houre as is said, before the fit, or rather more, but if the Feaver be continuall, as often in that fierce disease of the Plague it is, give it at any time in manner aforesaid; for if he take it, and his bur∣ning change into sweating, which the medicine u∣sually produceth, the feare of Death in the Pati∣ent is halfe over.
And further of a truth, the Author can affirme that he hath cured some by the heretofore mentio∣ned Antidote, that had the Pestities, or spots of the Plague, vulgarly called Gods tokens, upon them, and they are yet living witnesses thereof; for which, and all other his exceeding favours in that fearefull disease, the Almighty God alone be glo∣rified: And so the Author briefly eoncludeth with a Copy of a certificate concerning the Vertue of the before mentioned Antidote, Aurum Vitae, refer∣ring