A treatise of the plague containing the nature, signes, and accidents of the same, with the certaine and absolute cure of the feuers, botches and carbuncles that raigne in these times: and aboue all things most singular experiments and preseruatiues in the same, gathered by the obseruation of diuers worthy trauailers, and selected out of the writing of the best learned phisitians in this age. By Thomas Lodge, Doctor in Phisicke.

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Title: A treatise of the plague containing the nature, signes, and accidents of the same, with the certaine and absolute cure of the feuers, botches and carbuncles that raigne in these times: and aboue all things most singular experiments and preseruatiues in the same, gathered by the obseruation of diuers worthy trauailers, and selected out of the writing of the best learned phisitians in this age. By Thomas Lodge, Doctor in Phisicke.
Author: Lodge, Thomas, 1558?-1625.
Publication: London :: Printed [by Thomas Creede and Valentine Simmes] for Edward White and N[icholas] L[ing],; 1603.
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Subject terms: Plague -- Early works to 1800.
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A soueraine and excellent Remedie ta∣ken out of Alexis.

TAke Iuie berries of the oake in their full maturitie, (ga∣thered if it be possible in such places as are Northward) dry them in the shadow, and afterwards kéepe them in a boxe or leather Sachell, and reserue them for an especiall Re∣medy, and when you would make vse thereof, you shall giue of this pouder to those that are infected to the value of a dram, as much as will couer a French Crowne, mixe this powder with good white wine, and let the Patient drinke thereof, and couer him wel in his bed, that he may sweat so long as he may endure, and afterwards cause him to change his shirt, shéetes, and bed, if it be possible. And by experience it will profite, for proofe wherof the Author produceth maruellous effects of this medicine, especially of a Millanors being at Allep in Siria, who witnesseth that he tooke this medicine, and that sodainly the Carbuncle or Botch brake. And this was in the yeare 1523.