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ONe may be choaked also with stinking Scents, such as privies and fil∣thy ditches send forth.* 1.1 As in Saint Laurence Lane in London a young man fell into a privy vault, about fourteen yeares agoe (as I remember) who with the stink∣ing stuffe was for the time suffo∣cated; but being missed, and by chance, was with much ado got∣ten
to life againe. Neverthelesse, using such onely as wanted skill to encounter such a strange Ac∣cident, he died within two or three dayes after.
Christopherus à Vega,* 1.2 in the place before quoted, tells of two men that being employed among o∣thers in cleansing certaine sinkes, and stinking sewers, were so o∣vercome of the evill savours, that by their fellows they were taken up & carried out for dead. Yet hee recovered them both The one by giving him Vineger and Pepper to drinke.* 1.3 And the other by pouring into him Vine∣ger and the powder of Penyroy∣all. It is good for him also to hold to his nose strong sweete perfumes, as of Muske, Ambar-Greise, Civet, Lignum Aloës, and such like, But where such rich
Simples are not to be had, Sweet Marjoram, Tyme, Penyroyall, Rose∣mary, and Lavender (rubbed to∣gether betwixt ones hands) may be held to the nose. And if any of that filthy water bee gone downe into his stomacke, it must be brought forth by vomiting. Likewise, if in at the nostrills, the patient must be provoked to nee∣zing, with powder of Tobacco, long Pepper, or such like.
Amoderne Story.
A Story out of Ve∣ga.
The Cure.