CHAP. 5. A marvellous preſervative againſt the Plague.

To make this take white Ditany, round Ariſtolochia, with Crocodilium otherwiſe called Cardina, or Cordua, with Voruine, Gentian, Zeduariſe, an hearb called in Latine, pes midi, of each of them two Ounces, ſtamp all theſe together with a Handful of Rue, then take a glaſs that holdeth at leaſt three quarts, and fill it with the beſt wine you can find, whereinto you ſhall put all the foreſaid things, and let it ſtand ſo in your houſe, and in dangerous times take every morning a glaſs full of the ſaid wine before you go out of your houſe, but firſt obſerve to eat a Walnut a Fige and a branch or two of Rue, do this every morning.