1By what ?ignes you may know whether the ?ick be infected with the Pe?tilence. 2How tho?e ?ignes doe encrea?e or decrea?e every day; 3Whether life or death be likely to en?ue; 4A caveat not to tamper with tho?e that begin to amend of them?elves.

Tho?e that are infected with the Pe?tilence, in the beginning or fir?t day thereof, are taken with an extraordinary cold outwardly, and a burning heate inwardly, a great paine and girding about the ?tomacke, a ?luggi?hne??e and drou?ine??e of the whole body, a lo??e of appetite, a bitterne??e in the throat, with a de?ire to vomit, & ?ometimes they do vomit.

The di?ea?e continuing unto the ?econd and third day, the heate breaketh outwardly, ?tronger, and ?tronger, ?o that there followeth a great paine in the [4] head, and a difficulty of breathing, ?uperfluous ?leeps, and ?ometimes ?uperfluous watchings, they grow frantike and light-headed, and they looke very ?taringly: And if there doth any ?welling appear under the eares, armes, cheeks, or groines, and that the?e ?ignes aforenamed doe begin to cea?e, Then ?hall the ?ick recover immediatly without any medicine, onely give him a pla?ter or pulte??e to ripen the tumour, which mu?t be applyed the next day after the ?welling appeareth; but give him nothing inwardly, except it be a warme Caudle, or Ale-brue, or Broth; for if you give him a vomit or purge, you ?hall ?trike the ?welling into the noble parts, and the ?ick ?hall be in danger of his life: and if you let him bloud, you ?hall draw the venemous humour from the Soare into the veins, and di?per?e it with the bloud through the whole body, and thereby de?troy the health of the patient, and ?horten his life; as it came to pa??e with a good friend of mine. Al?o if you give him any medicine to provoke ?weat, you ?hall re?tore the Fever again, and ?o the ?icke ?hall die without redemption; yea, and more mi?erably, then tho?e that never amended, unle??e God be more mercifull unto him; whereof I have had a ?orrowfull experience.

Therefore bee carefull that you doe not tamper with tho?e that do begin to amend: for tho?e very Medicines that are excellently available again?t any Fevers in the beginning or encrea?e of them, being given in the declination or recovery, will bring the patient into a Relap?e, which is wor?e then the former di?ea?e, and which ?hall greatly endanger life. For how many have died by the un?ea?onable taking of Treacle, Mithridate, and other good Medicines? [5] Wherefore I have often ?aid, that a skilfull Phy?ician by watching his time ?hall doe more with a cup of warme drinke in the cure of the Plague, or any Fever, then the ignorant ?hall do with all the excellent Medicines that are in the Apothecaries Shop.

Now if the ri?ing doe appear, & that the ?ymptoms or ?ignes aforenamed doe not begin to cea?e, but rather encrea?e, Then ?hortly after there will appeare ?ome blains or ?pots, & ?o death en?ueth, unle??e you draw ten or twelve ounces of bloud (according to the ?trength of the ?ick) from the liver or middle vein of the arme, on that ?ide where the ri?ing is.

But if ?o be that the ?ickne??e continueth unto the third and fourth day, and the ?ymptomes remaine in their full vigour, then ?hortly will the ?pots come forth; and then I know no medicine that can deliver from death, except God be more mercifull to the ?ick: But only on the third day before the ?pots appear it ?hall be greatly available to give him one of the cordial ?weats pre?cribed in the en?uing Chapter.