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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An other excellent preseruatiue against the Plague.

TAke of the leaues of Mary-golds, which the Latines call Calendula, of Uerveine, Scabious and Sorrell, of each a handfull: of the rootes of Gentian, Zedoary, and white Diptamy, of each two drams, boyle them all together for two houres space in good and pure fountaine-water, from the va∣lue of a quart to a pinte, adde thervnto the iuice of sixe Limons and as much Sugar as shal be sufficient, make a sirope here∣of, and aromatise it with Cinamom, and take thereof euery morning foure or fiue spoonefulls.