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.

A Remedy, sent to the Lord Mayor of London, by King Henry the Eighth, against the PLAGUE.

TAKE a handful of Sage, a handful of Hearb-Grace, a handful of Elder Leaves, a handful of Red Bramble Leaves; stamp them all, and strain them through a fine Cloath, with a quart of VVhite-VVine; and then take a quantity of Ginger, and mingle them together, and take a spoonful of the same, and you shall be safe for twenty four Dayes; Nine times taking of it, is sufficient for a whole Year, by the Grace of God. And if it be so, that the Party be strick∣en with the Plague, before he hath drank this Medicine, then take the Water of Scabios a spoonful, of Water of Bettony a spoonful▪ and a quantity of fine Triacle; and put them all toge∣ther, and cause him to drink it, and it will ex∣pell all the Venome. If the Fotch appear, then take the Leaves of Brambles, Elder Leaves, Mu∣stard Seed, and stamp them together, and make a Plaister thereof, and lay it to the Sore, and that shall draw out the Venome, and the Party shall be whole, by the Grace of God.

M. H. Receipt against the Plague.

TAke Setwel Root, to the quantity of half a Walnut, and gra••e it; of Triacle-Jean, one good spoonful; of Wine-Vinegar, three good spoonfulls; of fair Water, three spoonfulls: Make these more than luke-warm, and so drink them off warm in your Bed, and sweat six or seven hours after. Drink Posset-Ale, made with small Drink, as your thirst requireth; so that you expect an hour and a half, after the Potion taking, be∣fore your first drinking, and it will drive forth the Plague. Let the Posset-Ale be luke-warm, at the first draughr, but after as you like it, so it be not quite cold.

These two Medicines have Cured above a thousand People, in this City, the last Plague time; And none hath took it in time, but scaped.