If Fuller wouldn’t find Jane a medic, then I’d do it myself. No medics to be found for a few days, Fuller had said. What use was that? The plague could kill a man in a day.I was up early next morning, promising Dowling I would return within the hour. With Forman, Withypoll, War and Pestilence all against us, it was foolhardy to walk the streets alone, yet I had an agenda Dowling would want no part of.Though hawkers and criers were prohibited, a new form of trade flourished: the selling of pills, potions and other concoctions as cure for plague. Whilst I would not consider lancing a bubo myself, nor did I much believe in bleeding or purging, I could gather what remedies seemed most likely from the apothecaries.Theriac was reckoned to be the most powerful antidote; a mixture of garlic, vinegar, walnuts, onion and the flesh of a poisonous snake. The poison of the snake was supposed to suck out the poison of the plague. Many other drugs were but variations of theriac, such as Venice treacle and London treacle.
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