Plague - Prevention - Early works to 1800
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Present remedies against the plague : Shewing sundry preseruatiues for the same, by holsome fumes, drinkes, vomits, and other inward receits: as also the perfect cure (by implaisture) of any that are therewith infected. Now necessary to bee obserued of euery housholder, to auoid the infection, lately begun in some places of this cittie. Written by a learned phisition, for the health of his country: and now newly inlarged by the same author, with remedies for the newe pestilent feuer.
Learned phisitionDate: 1594- Books
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A rich closet of physical secrets, collected by the elaborate paines of four severall students in physick, and digested together : viz. The child-bearers cabinet. A preservative against the plague and small pox. Physicall experiments presented to our late Queen Elizabeths own hands. With certain approved medicines, taken out of a manuscript, found at the dissolution of one of our English abbies, and supplied with some of his own experiments, by a late English doctor.
A. M.Date: 1652- Books
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A Direction concerning the plague, or pestilence, for pooore [sic] and rich.
Date: [1625?]- Books
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Ane breve descriptioun of the pest : quhair in the causis, signis and sum speciall preseruatioun and cure thairof ar contenit. / Set furth be Maister Gilbert Skene, doctoure in medicine.
Skene, Gilbert.Date: Anno Do. 1568..- Books
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An advertisement from the Society of Chymical Physitians, touching medicines by them prepared, in pursuance of his Majesties command, for the prevention, and for the cure of the plague.
Date: [1665]