given was light and generous--eggs, strong broths, and good wines; but of the usefulness of gold boiled in the broths Hodges has “nothing to say.” The patient was most rigidly kept in his bed, and those who were delirious were tied in them. During the sweats “the patients were forcibly kept awake,” and if later in the disease a little sleep was allowed, they were roused every four hours to take medicine. Scents were used in the room, and odorous gum resins, such as styrax, were burnt upon live coals. Blisters were applied to several parts, such as the nape of the neck and the insides of the arms and thighs. These blister plasters were made of pitch, galbanum, wax, cantharides, yeast, euphorbium, and vinegar of squills, worked into a mass. The parts thus blistered were not suffered to heal till the malignity of the disease was spent. “Besides epispasticks, it is not lost labour to apply proper things to the feet. I commonly used a plaster made of the compound betony 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.” Similar applications were also made to the wrists. The buboes were treated with cataplasms and discutients, and were often opened by the surgeon and subsequently washed with a “Lixivium of ashes, scordium, betony, bugloss, sanicle,” &c., in which also was dissolved some London treacle. Carbuncles were treated in a similar way, but when the eschar did not fall off the actual cautery was liberally applied. In order to prevent the necessity of using a hot iron, it was suggested that “sometimes the pestilential venom is to be drawn out by cupping or scarrification or epispasticks; sometimes also for the same purpose is applied the bare rump of a fowl, repeated until these creatures appear not to be hurt by it; for this natural warmth soothes the vital heat of the part it is applied to, and entices away the morbifick venom through the pores; pidgeons, used alive, and warm sheep’s lights have likewise been observed thus to asswage the acrimony of this pestilential virulence.”