Certain necessary directions as well for the cure of the plague as for preventing the infection with many easie medicines of small charge, very profitable to His Majesties subjects / set down by the Colledge of Physicians ...

V. Directions for the Searchers.

1. THey are to take notice whether there be any Swellings, Risings, or Botch under the Ear, about the Neck, on either Side, or under the Arm-pits of either Side, or the Gruins, and of its hardness, and whether broken or unbroken.

2. Whether there be any Blains which may rise in any part of the Body in the form of a Blister, much bigger than the Small Pox, of a straw-colour or livid co∣lour, which latter is the worser; either of them hath a reddish Circuit, something swollen round about it, which Circuit remains after the Blister is broken, en∣compassing the Sore.

3. Whether there be any Carbuncle, which is something like the Blain, but more fiery and corrosive, easily eating déep into the flesh, and sometimes having a black crust upon it, but always compassed about with a very fiery red (or livid) flat and hard tumour, about a finger-breadth more or less: this and the Blain may ap∣pear in any part of the Body.

4. Whether there be any Tokens, which are spots arising upon the skin, chiefly a∣bout the Breast & Back, but somtimes also in

other parts; their colour is something va∣rious, sometimes more reddish, sometimes inclining a little toward a faint blue, and sometimes brownish mixt with blue; the red ones have often a purple-tircle about them, the brownish, a reddish.

5. Whether the neck and other limbs are rigid or stiff, or more flexible and limber than in other dead bodies.