THESE THINGES OVGHT DUELIE TO be looked into. Viz.
o keepe your houses, streetes, yardes, backsides, sinckes, and kennels, sweete and cleane from all standing puddles, which engender stincking sauors, that may be noysome, or breede infection: nor suffer no dogges to come running into your houses, neither keepe any, except it bee backward, in some place of open ayre: for they are very daungerous, & not sufferable in time of sicknes, by reason they runne from place to place, & from one house to an other, feeding vppon the vncleanest things that are cast forth into the streetes and are a most apt cattell to take infection of any sicknes, and then to bring it into the house.
For ayring your Roomes.
Ayer your seuerall roomes with Charcole fiers, made in stone pans or Chafingdishes, and not in Chimneys: set your pans in the middle of the roomes: ayer euery roome once a weeke (at the least) and put into your fyre a little quantitie of Francomsence, Iuniper, dryed Rosemary, or of Bay-leaues.
A Fume of great experience.
Take Rosemary, and put it into stronge Vineger, steepe it in a Bason or bowle, heat foure or fiue Flint stones red hot, and cast them into the Vineger, and so let the fume assend into the middle of euery roome.
An other.
Ayer your apparel in the same sort, and with the same fume: and beare in your hands, some handkercher, Spunge, or Cloth, wetted in the iuyce of VVorme-wood, Hearbegrace, and red Rose-vineger, mixt together.