The skilful physician containing directions for the preservation of a healthful condition, and approved remedies for all diseases and infirmities (outward or inward) incident to the body of man ... whereunto is added experimented instructions for the compounding of perfumes, also for the chusing and ordering of all kinds of wines, both in preserving the sound, and rectifying those that are prick'd : never before imparted to publick view.

An approved Medicine for the Plague.

It taketh one like the Ague, with cold: as soon as it taketh them and complain of it, take five, seven or nine leaves of Garden Spurge, nine is the most, stamp them small in a dish, and put to it warm milk or Posset Ale, and let the sick bo∣dy drink it, and presently go to bed and sweat; then take a great Onion and take out the core, and put into it Mithri∣datum, then lay on the top again, and rost it very soft, then beat it very small in a dish, and put to it three spoonfuls of White Wine Vinegar, and as much

Sugar as will make it pleasant to take, and as soon as the stomack is purged, give him of the Onion as much as you can, for that will draw out ••he Sore in four and twenty hours (by Gods grace) and keep the Patient very hot and warm, and give him hot Broths and Drinks, and keep him in a sweat four and twenty hours, and after keep him very hot, and when the Sore is come out, roast an O∣nion with Treakle and Viegar, and lay it to the Sore to draw it out, and have a Chirurgion to launce it.

For the rest of your houshold, give them every day Mithridatum and Trea∣kle, and take Centory and Madder, and boil it in Beer, and let them drink now and then thereof.