CHAP. 50.
How to make a drink eaſie for the poor of low price.
Take the decoction of Scabius, and of the flowers of red pop ge a glaſs full with a little ſuger or a little white vineger, or a ptiſane, made with barley and Aniſeeds and the roots of Parſley the roots of Suckrey the one or the other decoction with ſharp ſirrup two ounces or a little white vineger. You muſt underſtand that theſe foreſaid drinks be taken hot, the patient being well covered in his bed the Triacle and Mithridate although they be of great efficacy yet are they not meet for women with childe nor for young children, the uſe of them ought not to be often nor in great quantities, when the Fevor is great, ſome mens advice is to mingle the medicine for ſweating with ſome diſtilled water or with the decoction of herbs, concerning the part to which the venomous matter hath its courſe, now if a man knoweth that the mater goeth to the head, let the patient take it with ſome diſtilled waters or with the decoction Bitony, but if it go to the vital parts, or to the breſt and heart, with the water of the decoction of Borage, which is very Bugloſs, if it go to the belly and bowels with liquor of wormwood, if to the Liver, then with the decoction water of Egrimony which is the true and Real Zupatorium.
CHAP. 51.
How to provoke ſweat and heal the Plague.
Take of the herb called Rape, with the roots of the leſſer Planton and knot graſs of each half a handfull bray them well and boyle them in vineger then ſtrain them through a linnen cloath, give the ſick perſon of this to drink when he goeth to bed it will cauſe him to ſweat out all the ill humers.
CHAP. 52.
An excellent preſervative againſt the Plague.
Take one ounce of the juce of green nuts, half an ounce of the juce of Agrimony, three drams of the juce of Rue, three ounces of the juce of Iſſope four ounces of the juce of hemp mingle them altogether, then take half an ounce of the ſaid mixture with half a dram of mumea and half an ounce of Suger Candy and one dram of ſuger of Roſes, an Electuary thereof and diſſolve the quantity of a Cheſtnut of it in good wine and drink thereof when you riſe and when you go to bed.