[De epidemia et peste]

rosemary, juniper, cypress, savin, and calamus. And these woods specifically should be burned in the house, or a fumigation should be made from them over burning coals. The aforementioned are warm aromatic substances. If, however, it is done with cold aromatic substances, they will help the healthy greatly and those who are already actually sick, namely with sandalwood, roses, willow leaves, water lily flowers, and so on with others. And with vinegar poured over a burning tile or iron. And also with coriander, oak leaves, camphor, and with the rinds of pomegranates, tamarisk, ebony, myrtle, and shrubs. With these, the house should be fumigated, and they should be held in the hand and smelled often and always. And the room where they sleep should also be fumigated with the aforementioned, which room ought to be between two floors, closed on all sides, or near the ground, provided it is not rheumatic.

The upper room should not be inhabited, because it is more quickly reached by the influence Refers to the astrological "influence" or miasma believed to settle in the air.. And if any vents or windows must be opened, let those be opened that are toward the north, and those that are toward the south and east should be closed. It is secure, however, that they be kept closed with glass or waxed cloth. In hot weather, such as in summer or autumn, branches of willow, tamarisk, oak, and reeds should be placed around the walls of the house or room. And the house should be strewn with rushes and leaves of willow, or water lilies, or violets. And the house should be sprinkled with spring water, vinegar, and rose water. And fumigations should be made with cold aromatic substances twice or three times a day and night, and they should stay in such air. Also, linens soaked in cold water and vinegar should be hanging around the walls and houses. And they should beware of the sight and conversation of infected people, and of touch, and if it happens, turn the face away and smell vinegar. Let poultices be made and vessels filled with water in a container which