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Febrifugum magnum, or, Common water the best cure for fevers, and probably for the plague, with a discourse of curing the chin-cough by water / by John Hancocke.

  • Hancocke, John, -1728
Date:
1724
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Febrifugum magnum, or, Common water the best cure for fevers, and probably for the plague, with a discourse of curing the chin-cough by water / by John Hancocke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    —MS i milk /Qy i'H IK Q TmE T may (and perhaps juftiy) be wonder’d, that I, who am not aPhyfician, fhould pretend to give any Directions about the Cure of any Diftemper; much more Fevers, which have hi- herto nonpluft the Skill of the greatefl and >eft Phyficians, both ancient and modern, in- omuch that there has not yet been found out my Remedy that will certainly take off a Fe- rer. Borelliy in his Short Difcourfe of Fevers, ells us, That many learned Phyficians have ronfefled, they did not underhand either the ])aufe or Cure of Fevers: And therefore it vould be no Wonder if he himfelf fiiould be piftaken in his Account of them, Almoft all A 2 ; Writers