this same matter and disease. Who
therfore lusteth to see more, let him loke vpon that boke. Yet
here thus much wil I say, that if after euacuation or auoiding
of humors, the pores of the skinne remaine close, and y^e
sweating excrement in the fleshe continueth grosse (whiche
thinge howe to know, hereafter I will declare) then rubbe you
the person meanly at home, & bathe him in faire water sodden
with Fenel, Chamemil, Rosemarye, Mallowes, & Lauendre, & last of
al, powre water half colde ouer al his body, and so dry him, &
clothe him. Al these be to be don a litle before y^e end of y^e
spring, that the humours may be seatled, and at rest, before the
time of the sweting, whiche cometh comonly in somer, if it
cometh at al. For the tormoiling of the body in that time when
it ought to be most quiete, at rest, and armed against his
enemy, liketh me not beste here, no more then in the pestilence.
Yet for the presente nede, if it be so thoughte good to a
learned and discrete Phisicien, I condescend the rather. For as
in thys, so in alle others before rehearsed, I remytte you to
the discretion of a learned manne in phisike, who maye iudge
what is to be done, and how, according to the present estate of
youre bodies, nature, custome, and proprety, age, strength,
delyghte and qualitie, tyme of the yeare, with other
circumstaunces, and thereafter to geue the quantitie, and make
diuersitie of hys medicine. Other wise loke not to receiue by
this boke that good which I entend, but that euel which by your
owne foly you vndiscretelye bring. For good counseil may be
abused. And for me to write of euery particular estate and case,
whiche be so manye as there be menne, were so great almost a
busines, as to numbre the sandes in the sea. Therfore seke you
out a good Phisicien, and knowen to haue skille, and at the
leaste be so good to your bodies, as you are to your hosen or
shoes, for the wel making or mending wherof, I doubt (28) not
but you wil diligently searche out who is knowen to be the best
hosier or shoemaker in the place where you dwelle: and flie the
vnlearned as a pestilence in a comune wealth. As simple women,
carpenters, pewterers, brasiers, sopeballesellers, pulters,
hostellers, painters, apotecaries (otherwise then for
their drogges,) auaunters them selues to come from Pole,
Constantinople, Italie, Almaine, Spaine, Fraunce, Grece and
Turkie, Inde, Egipt or Jury: from y^e seruice of Emperoures,
kinges & quienes, promising he