Steepe _Sorrell_ in _Vineger_, xxiiij. howers, then take it out, & dry it with a linnen cloth, then still it in a Limbecke, drinke foure spoonefuls, with a little Sugar: then walke vppon it till you sweat, if you may: if not, keepe your bed and sweat vpon it. Use this before supper on any euening. If the pacient happen to bee troubled with any swellings, botches, Carbuncles, or Gods tokens: let him sweat moderatly now and then. Outward Medicines to rypen the sore. Take the roote of a white _Lylly_, rost it in a good handful of _Sorrell_, stampe it and apply it thereto very hot. Let it lye xxiiij. howers, and it will breake the sore. An other. Take olde Swynes grease salted, two ounces, with the yolke of an egge, and two handfuls of _Scabias_, stampe them together, and lay it warme to the sore. An other. Take a small quantitie of Leuen, a handfull of _Mallowes_, a little quantitie of _Scabias_, cut a white _Oynion_ into peeces, with halfe a dozen heades of _Garlicke_: boyle these together in running Water, make a Poultus of it, and then lay it hot to the sore. Another. The like may be made of two handfuls of _Valerian_, three rootes of _Danwoorte_, and a handfull of _Smallidge_: seeth them in sheepes suet and water, with a fewe crums of bread: and applye it hotte to the sore. An other. Take a hot Loafe, new taken foorth of the Ouen, apply it to the sore, and it will doubtlesse breake the same: but afterward bury the same loafe deepe enough in the ground, for feare of any infection: for if either dog or any other thing doe feede thereon, it will infect a great many. Other obseruations. Let the sicke and enfected persons bee seperated and kept from the whole, vntill the sore bee healed: but generally let them be kept within the space of a moneth. For ayring Apparell. Let the Apparell of the diseased persons, be well and often washed, be it lynnen or woollen: or let it be ayred in the sonne, or ouer pans of fyer, or ouer a Chafingdish of Coales, & fume the same with _Francomsence_, _Iuniper_, or dryed _Rose-mary_. A perfect good Playster for the cure of the sore, after it is broken. Take vnwrought Waxe, white Turpentine, the yolke of an Egge, a little fresh butter, and a quantitie of English honney, boyle all these together to a salue, and apply it to the sore, being thin spread vppon a cloth in manner of an ordenary playster. _FINIS._ Transcriber’s Notes —Retained publication information from the printed edition: this eBook is public-domain in the country of publication. —Left the original orthography and spelling unchanged. —In the HTML version only, blockletter text is represented by bold sans-serif. —In the text versions only, text in _italics_ is delimited by _underscores_. End of Project Gutenberg's Good Councell against the plague, by Anonymous