CHAP. 19. _A very good Remedy againſt the Marks of the plague commonly called Gods marks or God tokens._ Take freſh and green Rhopenticum, which is the hearb and root called Themore or great Centory, it is named of _Pliny_, as _Bulius_ doth write (_Rhacoma_) with the roots of the hearb called _Sanguinaria dactillon_, of ſome _Dens Canis_, of _Dioſcordious_ it is called _Coronopus_, that is to ſay Crows foot, ſome take it to be Dandelion, take therewith the roots of Turmiltill, and white Dittany, of each of theſe an Ounce, ſtamp all well then put them in a pot or violl with clear water at your diſcretion, rather too much then too little, till it paſs three handfulls above the other things in the pot; then boyle it with a clear fire without ſmoak, untill one third part be deminiſhed then ſtrain it ſoftly into a clean glaſs and it will be of the colour of wine, when neceſſity doth require you may give the patient a glaſs full in the morning and another at night two hours before ſupper, but it muſt be very hot, then cover him well in his bed and make him ſweat, when the Marks come forth he ſhall become like a Lazer or a Lepper and by Gods bleſſing ſhall recover in a ſhort time and be perfectly whole. CHAP. 20. _Againſt the mortality of the Peſtilence an approved remedy._ Take Gentian, Seduaria, roots of Turmentille of each of them two Ounces, Red Sandal, white and Recent, Ditany, Harts horn burnd, white pearl, bole Armoniack round Ariſtolochia, of each of them an Ounce, half an Ounce of Camphere, two Ounces of white Suger: of all theſe things beaten together into powder you ſhall take at every time a dram with three Ounces as Endive water, or Sorrell water, mixe the water and the Suger with the bigneſs of a Walnut of fine Triacle, you muſt miniſter this Medicine before the ſickneſs have continued with the perſon twelve hours for it is the ſurer, if the patient be an infant then give him but half a dram of it with an Ounce and a half of one of the ſaid waters, and with the like quantity of Triacle, this drink is neither ſolvable nor laxative, nor doth cauſe any grief to the patient but onely killeth the poyſon, if any perſon have drunk or eaten any poyſon it is a very good Medicine for him, it is alſo very good againſt a hot fevor or Ague, note alſo that if it be poſſible the patient muſt be let bloud before he take this or ſuddenly after. CHAP. 21. _To make little round balls good againſt the Plague._