CHAP. 11.
A thing often experimented againſt the Plague.
Take two Ounces of Maſtick, one Ounce of Euphorbium, five Ounces of Spignard, beat theſe into powder and give it the patient to drink, if he be under ten years of age give him but a Scruple of it, if betwixt ten and twenty years of age give him half a dram, if above twenty years old give him a dram, then take the hearb called in Greek Pentaphylon, in Latine Quinque folium, in Engliſh Cinkfoil, and wrap it like a round Apple in a linnen cloath lay it ſo under the embers a certain time, and having taken it out, cut it in three pieces in the middle, and lay it upon the ſore, this will give immediate eaſe unto the patient proved and experimented many times.
CHAP. 12.
A preſervative againſt the Plague proved oftentimes.
In a dangerous time take three branches of Rue, a Walnut and a Fig, eat all this and your ſtomach ſhall be fenced againſt Infection.
CHAP. 13.
Another.
Take Vineger, the juce of a white Ounion, the juce of Rue and of Milfoil, Yarrow, or Noſe-bleed, of each of them alike quantity mixe all together, and give the patient a glaſs full very hot, but let it be before the ſixth hour after the pain hath taken him, then make him ſweat in a warm bed, this hath been an approved remedy.