[CHAP. 40.]
Of five outward Remedies, to purge the Aire, the preſenteſt and eaſieſt and of ſmalleſt price for perſons low in eſtate and condition.
Firſt take Juniper berries with ſome of the root cloven aſunder and dried with ſome of the forementioned drugs and make thereof a perfume this is good to purge the Air. Secondly, ſprinkle your Chamber with Vineger alone or mixed with Roſe water. Thirdly, when you are to go out into company, put into your mouth the Pill or ſeed of a Cittorn, or Cinamon, or Cloves or the Roots of Angelica, or Zedoarie or ſuch as are before mentioned, hold theſe in your mouth and chaw them for you ſhall finde that they will give a good odour. Fourthly, if you deſire to ſmell to a ſpunge or to a Hancherchief both day and night, Malmſey or other ſtrong wine and ſweet; ſuch as are Muſcadell alone or elſe with Roſe water, wherein there hath been tempered ſome Aromaticall drug already ſpoken of, and alſo Cloves and Nutmukes, are very good for this purpoſe. Fifthly, if it be in ſummer take a little Camphere, with a little cold water and twice ſo much Vineger, this is alſo very good.
[CHAP. 41.]
Eight Cauſions for the whole ſum of governing of mans body eſpecially in the time of the Plague.
1. It is neceſſary that you keep every thing neat and clean in your houſe often waſhing and cleanſing the ſame, and that as much as in you lyeth you do avoid going into all evil Aire. 2. Be ſure that you flye all exceſs of Riot and ſuperfluity of intemperate eating and drinking, and with all the carnall company of women. 3. When you travell walk moderately and overheat not your ſelf, neither ſleep in the day time, but moderately in the night, avoid as much as you may inordinate watching.
[CHAP. 42.]
A ſoverain powder againſt the venome of the Plague, fit for Princes and Rich people.
Take Saphire Hiacinthe Smaragdus, of one or two or of all of theſe one dram, of pearls bole Armoniack of the beſt, with the ſeeds of Oxaliſe of each of theſe two drams, of the ſcrapings of Ivory two ſcruples of Unicorns horn one ſcruple, of the ſeed of Ocinum, half a ſcruple, yellow or red Sanders Agalocchi or Xilaloes of the beſt, Doronicie, Cinamon, exquiſite Saffone of each three grains ſix grains of Muſk, make of theſe a fine powder, and leave out the muſk for them that love it not, the uſe of the ſaid powder and others that follow ſhall be declared hereafter if God permit.