Preservatives against the plague, or directions and advertisements for this time of pestilentiall contagion ... Also a caveat to those that weare about their necks impoisoned amulets as a preservative ... First published for the behoofe of the City of London, in ... 1603 and 1625 and reprinted for the benefit of the said citie, now visited / [Francis Herring].

  • Francis Herring
Date:
1641
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Credit: Preservatives against the plague, or directions and advertisements for this time of pestilentiall contagion ... Also a caveat to those that weare about their necks impoisoned amulets as a preservative ... First published for the behoofe of the City of London, in ... 1603 and 1625 and reprinted for the benefit of the said citie, now visited / [Francis Herring]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the (Peflilence] It is evident that Arfenicke being a confeflTed poi- fon, is an oppofite, profefled and perpetuall enemy to our nature- Thcrefore being worne next the skin, as foone as the heart vvaxcth hot by any vehement motion* labour or ftirring (as it falleth out ufually) it muft needs fend out venomous vapours to that noble and principal! part • which will either pene¬ trate by their owne force, or be drawne in with the aire^by the dilation of thofe arteries which are fpread about the skin. r Gal.j.dcTciBp cap. u Now thefe poifonfull vapours being entred or fucked into the body, when they finde no coatra- rie poifon with whom to wraftle as with an ene¬ my (for if there were any venom in the body, the partie could not enjoy health: but we intend him to be in health, whom we would preferve) they muft needs imprint a malignant venomous qualitie in the ipirits and heart, moft adverfe and pernicious to na* cure. If by Galens dodlrine, all Alexeteries in a man- cap* ner, if they be ufed fomewhat too liberally, doe13* greitly offend and weaken our bodies ; fhall wee thinke that rankejpoifons and Deletcries (Tuch as Arfenicke is ) if they be fo applied, as to penetrate into the nobleft region of all other, will nothing at all violate3and waft our native, vitaJl, and radically heate i Galen and the ancient Fathers and Mafiers of Lib.deTb<r. Phyficke, did not ufe to preferve from the Pl igue a. 5 Parrpbil; or any other poifon, either by giving another ion inwardly, or by appointing other poifons to be Tetrah.4-c*. outwardly applied, but proceeded altogether byfc£“'uslib'
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