BESIDES _Epispasticks_, it is not lost Labour to apply proper Things to the Feet; I commonly used a Plaster made of the compound _Bettany_ Plaster, adding to it some _Euphorbium_, _Saffron_, and _London Treacle_; And I found this to do more Good than _Cataplasms_, which some, however, liked better to use, and were made of _Bryony_ Root steeped in Vinegar, the Flesh of _pickled Herrings_, _black Soap_, _Rue_, _Scordium_, and _Arum_, with a sufficient Quantity of Vinegar: Sometimes also Pidgeons were applied to the Feet. BUT these, and other Medicines of the same Rank, were not applied in any Expectation to draw away by them the pestilential _Miasmata_ as by Attraction; but because the Multitude of Pores, and their Largeness in the Soles of the Feet, gave such Things an Opportunity of sending in that warmth, as would keep the Animal Humours more fluxile, and cherish the natural Heat that was almost extinct; and from thence the whole Body would be refreshed by their Influence: Applications were likewise made to the Wrist with the same View. AND thus having gone through the curative Part of a Pestilence in general, we now come to the Management of particular Symptoms; and first of all of the Buboes. IT highly concerns all who are concerned for the Sick in these Cases, both Physicians and Surgeons, to attend with Diligence to the Nature of these Tumours, and have their several Differences ready in their Minds, that at their first Sight they may know their Condition, and use Means of treating them accordingly. And first of all it is to be enquired, whether they are moveable or fixt? whether soft or hard? whether depressed or prominent? whether small or great? whether contracted or broad? whether with, or without Pain? and lastly, whether inflamed or not? WHENSOEVER a Buboe is uncertain and dodges, sometimes appearing and then again going back, all Means is to be used to fix it; and this is very successfully done by cupping upon the Glands, which will fix a permanent Tumour upon them. TO Buboes just in their first Formation, we have indeed applied _Discutients_, and very powerful ones too, in Order to dissipate them; and although they have several Times endeavoured to settle, yet we have not despaired to conquer the Enemy this Way: But we always found it for certain, that they who went through such Fluxes and Refluxes of the pestilential Venom, never recovered in such a perfect Manner, as they whose Buboes immediately fixed, and after Suppuration threw out a great deal of Matter.