An elenchus of opinions concerning the cure of small pox : together with problematicall questions concerning the French pest / by T. Whitaker.

Tobias Whitaker

Date:: 1661

Credit: An elenchus of opinions concerning the cure of small pox : together with problematicall questions concerning the French pest / by T. Whitaker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$caae The Small Pox. 69 “ftom to bea fpecifical remedy \to thofe Natives in their own i | Region:as in*Holland, their but- bhaived | ter-milk and apples is their Coal | | moft cordial referfhment in al] | difeafes,and inall thofe places; | and of more efteem then any o- ly ,| ther remedy, and moft prefcri- ij bed by their Native Phyfici- i ans.; and if you meet with the || >| prefcript of a pickled-herring, cE | with an order to prepare it, you (| an | have thena Probatumin all di- feafes ; for there isno full fatis- | faction given to any of that Na- | tion, if thefe remedies be prohi- | bited. And anfwerably there is | a natural adherencein all Nati- | ons to theit own cuftom, Suum 3 sh culque pulchrum,the Crow con- ee | ceiveth her own bird the ‘fair- if ray eft, and fo doth the Negro. 4 | And both man and beaft, as Vii they have an aliment proper to I _| theirown Nature, fo naturally i (i : ‘ they |$