A watch-man for the pest. Teaching the true rules of preservation from the pestilent contagion, at this time fearefully over-flowing this famous cittie of London / Collected out of the best authors, mixed with auncient experience, and moulded into a new and most plaine method.

Stephen Bradwell

Date:: 1625

Credit: A watch-man for the pest. Teaching the true rules of preservation from the pestilent contagion, at this time fearefully over-flowing this famous cittie of London / Collected out of the best authors, mixed with auncient experience, and moulded into a new and most plaine method. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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