medendi methodo_, of deuise to cure diseases, there is no thinge more comfortable to the spirites then good and swiet odoures. On this wise aduised how to order your selues in al the time of the fitte, now this remaineth, to exhorte you not to go out of your houses for iij. dayes, or ij. at the least after the fitte passed, and then wiselye, warely, and not except in a faire (39) bright daye, for feare of swouning after great emptinesse, and vnwont ayer, or for forcyng nature by soubdaine strikyng in of thesame aier, colde, or euil, in to the open body. For nature so forced, maketh often tymes a sore and soubdaine fluxe, as wel after auoidaunce of these humores by sweate, (as was this yere well sene in many persones in diuerse contries of Englande for none other cause) as of others by purgation. Thus I haue declared the begynning, name, nature, accidentes, signes, causes, preseruations, and cures naturall of this disease the sweatynge sickenes, English _Ephemera_, or pestilent sweate, so shortly & plainly as I could for y^e cõmune saufty of my good countrimen, help, relieue, & defence of thesame against y^e soubdaine assaultes of the disease, & to satisfie the honeste requeste of my louynge frendes and gentle acquaintance. If other causes ther be supernatural, theim I leue to the diuines to serche, and the diseases thereof to cure, as a matter with out the compasse of my facultie. IMPRINTED _at London, by Richard Grafton Printer to the Kynges majestie Anno. Do. 1552 Cum privilegio ad impri- mendum solum_ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * _Errors and Inconsistencies_ The name is consistently spelled “Jhon” The letters u and v are shown as printed, including the occasional initial u or non-initial v. The capital U form is used consistently; conversely, the “v” form is used in all numbers. Random spacing of “the same” : “thesame” is unchanged. A comfirmacion of this is [_spelling unchanged_] sodde in water & vinegre w^t rosemary, time, sage, & hole maces [_missing , after “rosemary”_] _abderã in Thratia_ [_italicized as shown: expected form would have only “Thracia” in italics_] frõ _æthiopia_, _illyria_ & _pæonia_ [_printed with italic ampersand as if one place: “Illyria and Pæonia”_] Good meanes to fet out the euelle stuffe of the body be two [_printed as shown: long “s” (“ſet”) in 1552 text?_] and wast the frutes whiche therthe doeth giue [_text has “grue”_] End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Sweating Sickness, by John Caius