IF you fear you are Infected, or feel any Ker∣nel rising, or any Apostumation burning or pricking, abstain from Sleep, for Sleep leadeth the Venome to the Heart. That Day that you are Infected, eat but little, or no Food; for evil Humours so fill you, that they take away your Stomack: Or if you do eat, then do you co∣vet to sleep, and feel a great burning, with a kind of shuddering, as it were, through Cold: You have also a great Pain in the fore part of the Head: You cannot endure to ride, or to
Food and physick for every householder & his family during the time of the plague very useful, both for the free and the infected, and necessary for all persons in what condition or quality soever : together with several prayers and meditations before, in, and after infection, very needful in all infectious and contagious times, and fit as well for the country as the city / published by T.D. for the publick good.
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- Food and physick for every householder & his family during the time of the plague very useful, both for the free and the infected, and necessary for all persons in what condition or quality soever : together with several prayers and meditations before, in, and after infection, very needful in all infectious and contagious times, and fit as well for the country as the city / published by T.D. for the publick good.
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- 1665.
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walk, or any motion of the Body; but are dull, lumpish, and given wholly over to-sadness and drowsiness.
To prove, that these are Arguments, that you are Infected; let any Man, finding his Body in this Distemper, not stir or walk (which I counsel him to do; for to goe into the Air, and to use motion, keepeth the Poyson longer from the Heart) and he shall find within one half Day, some Impostume rising under his Arm∣hole, in his Groyn, or behind his Ear.
The first thing therefore (after you feel your self thus) is, with all speed, to be let blood; when you are let blood, sleep not all that Day; you must be let blood on the same side the Swelling appears, if so be the Impo∣stume arise before you sleep: but if it prick af∣ter you have slept, then be let blood on the con∣trary side: As if there be a swelling under the left Arm, then be let blood on the right Arm, If thou art saint or weak after letting blood, then sleep a little, yet every half hour stir thy Body too and fro. If the Impostume wax bigger and bigger, it is a good sign that the Venome is driven from the Heart, and will come forth. To ripen it, do thus; Stamp Leaves of Elder, and mix that Juice with Mustard-Seed; of this make a Plaister, and lay it on the Swelling.