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.
Cite this Item: "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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A06182.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 21, 2024.

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•• prettie preseruatiue to be carried in a mans mouth du∣ring the time of infection, which procureth a sauoury and sweete breath.

TAke of fine Sugar one ounce, of Orace halfe an ounce, of the shell of an Egge the inward skin being taken away halfe an ounce, put the shell of the Egge into Muske Rose water till it be mollified for the space of eight dayes, beat 〈◊〉〈◊〉 these to a fine powder, and with Rose water wherin Gum Tracagant hath bene infused, make prettie Pellets according so what bignesse you please. These are very wholesome, and make the breath swéete, and comfort the heart inwardly, and are of a temperat qualitie, which you may kéep in your mouth some thrée houres.