A treatise of the pestilence vvherein is shewed all the causes thereof, with most assured preseruatiues against all infection: and lastly is taught the true and perfect cure of the pestilence, by most excellent and approued medicines. Composed by Thomas Thayre chirurgian, for the benefite of his countrie, but chiefly for the honorable city of London.
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- A treatise of the pestilence vvherein is shewed all the causes thereof, with most assured preseruatiues against all infection: and lastly is taught the true and perfect cure of the pestilence, by most excellent and approued medicines. Composed by Thomas Thayre chirurgian, for the benefite of his countrie, but chiefly for the honorable city of London.
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- Thayre, Thomas.
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- Imprinted at London :: By E. Short, dwelling at the signe of the starre on bred-streete Hill,
- 1603.
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"A treatise of the pestilence vvherein is shewed all the causes thereof, with most assured preseruatiues against all infection: and lastly is taught the true and perfect cure of the pestilence, by most excellent and approued medicines. Composed by Thomas Thayre chirurgian, for the benefite of his countrie, but chiefly for the honorable city of London." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A13646.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024.
Contents
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TO THE RIGHT HONORA∣ble Sir ROBERT LEE Knight, Lorde
Maior of the renowned City of London, and to the right Worshipful the Sheriffes, and al∣so to all the right Worshipfull the Aldermen their brethren, THOMAS THAYREwish∣eth all spirituall and temporall blessings from the Lord in this life, and in the life to come eternall saluation, through Christ Jesu our Sauiour. -
To the louing Reader grace
and health from the Lord. -
A Treatise of the Pestilence:
wherein is shewed all the causes thereof, with most assured preseruatiuesagainst all infection. - The Composition of the pill.
- In receiuing of the aire.
- In eating and drinking.
- Of sleeping and waking.
- Of exercise and rest.
- Of fulnesse and emptinesse.
- Of affections of the mind.
- Pilles of especiall vertue in preseruing all that vse them.
- Another pill that doth more moue the bodie, and giueth two stooles, or three in some bodies, and this is good for such as are costiue, and in whom hu∣mours abound.
- Another very good Preseruatiue, and worthy of much commendations.
- Or this which is very good.
- A good pill and an assured preseruatiue.
- Another of most excellent vertue, and an assured preseruatiue.
- Another that defendeth all men that vse it, from the infection of this contagious sicknesse.
- The common pils against the pestilence, that defend al them that vse them from infection.
- A very good Pomander to be worne of all the better sort against this infection, and stinking and noisome smels when they go abroade.
- An other good Pomander, though not all thing so costly, to be worne against the infecti∣on of the aire.
- For your diet.
- Preseruatiues for the Commons and Contry∣men, who haue not an Apothecarie at hand.
- Another good preseruatiue of no lesse vertue in resisting all infection.
- Another good preseruatiue that defen∣deth all from infection.
- An Electuarie of great and singular vertue in cu∣ring of the pestilence, being taken in time before it be setled at the heart, and nature vtterly ouer come.
- Another Electuary curing the pestilence, being ta∣ken within twelue, sixteene or eighteene houres, after the person is in∣fected.
- A singular confection for the cure of the Pestilence.
- Another that cureth the Pestilence, and expulseth al venemous infection.
- Another for the commons and countrimen, where these aforesaid set downe cannot be had.
- Another medicine or remedie for the Com∣mons and Contriemen, very good and effectuall.
- Or this which is very good.
- The signes that signifie and declare a person to be in∣fected with the pestilence.
- Principijs obsta, sero medicina paratur &c.
- The cure of the Pestilence, when no botch, or sore appeareth, and how to preuent the rising of any botch or sores most commonly in all persons.
- A purging potion of great vertue, that expulseth all venemous and corrupt humours from the body.
- The way or meanes to cure such in whom the botch appeareth.
- A good Cordial comforting the heart and cooling, to be vsed after the patient hath sweat or purged, and oftentimes in the day to take of it as much as a good hazell nut at a time.
- A good potion giuing fiue or sixe stooles gently, which purgeth venemous filthy humours from the bodie, to be taken the third day after sweat, if no sore or botch appeare, or when a sore or botch hath runne, and is growing well, then is it good to vse this.
- Another good Cordiall greatly comforting the pati∣ent after his sweate to be eaten oftentimes, a lit∣tle at a time, and to continue the vse thereof three or foure dayes, vntill he be strong, and all danger past, or in his sweate a little, if he be weake, faint, and apt to swoune.
- Or this asswageth and taketh away all thirst, and drinesse in this case.
- A Quilt for comforting and strengthening the heart, when the patient is weake, to be worne after his sweating.
- An Epithymum that doth much comfort the heart, when a person is weake.
- A Potion purging gently all venemous and corrupt humours from the body.
- An vnguent to annoint the temples and browes of him that cannot sleepe through heat, and distem∣perature of the braine.
- A Frontall to be applyed vnto the fore part of the head, to cause sleep.
- A Gargarisme to heale the mouth, throat & tongue in this sicknesse, if it be sore through the heat of the stomacke.
- A plaister to suppurate, drawe forth, and ripen the sore or botch, although common, yet very good and commended of al that vse it.
- Another that ripeneth the botch and bringeth it speedely vnto suppuration.
- An Implaister that ripeneth the sore or botch.
- Another plaister that draweth forth the sore and ripeneth it speedily.
- What is to be done when a sore or botch lieth deepe and commes not forth.
- What is to be done when the botch wil not come to suppuration, but continues hard.
- What is to bee done when a botch strikes. in againe.
- The Clister.