e pacient. If in
duringe oute the foure and twentye houres there be thought
daungiere of death without remouing, rather warme well the other
side of the bedde, and wil hym to remoue himself into it, then to
take him vp & remoue hym to an other bed, which in no case mai
be done. For better is a doubtful ware hope, then a certeine
auentured death. The foure and twenty houres passed duly, they
may putte on theire clothes warme, aryse, and refresshe theym
selues with a cawdle of an egge swietelye made, or such other
meates and sauces reasonably and smally taken, as before I
mencioned. And if their strength be sore wasted, let theym
smelle to an old swiet apple (as Aristotle did by his reporte in
the boke _de pomo_) or hotte new bread, as _Democritus_ did, by
the record of _Laertius_ in his life, either by it self alone,
or dipped in wel smelling wyne, as Maluesey or Muscadelle, &
sprinckled with the pouder of mintes. Orenges also and Lemones,
or suche muske balles as I before described, be thinges mete for
this purpose. For as I saied in my ij. litle bokes in Latine _de
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 commune 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