Which lines best summarize the excerpt? keeping warm and eating onions was the only way to avoid the plague. this treatment was recommended by nicholas bownd. some elizabethans believed that diet caused the plague. nicholas bownd suggested praying to god as the only cure. writer simon forman believed that god was the only answer to the plague. he survived the disease and ate warm onions to treat his sores. while doctors like simon forman tried to help, others such as nicholas bownd relied on their faith in god.