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.

An excellent and approued remedie allowed by diuers learned mens experience.

TAke the rootes of Tormentil, and of white Diptamus, the rootes of Ualerian, and white Daises (and if it be pos∣sible to get them gréene it shal be the better:) Take these aboue named rootes, as much of the one as of the other, pound them and make a fine pouder of them: Then take the decocti∣on of Sorrel, and let the aboue named pouder be infused in the same, then let it be taken out and dried in the Sunne; Af∣terwards beate it to pouder againe, and infuse it anew, and afterwards dry it in the Sunne as before: which when you haue done thrée or foure times, reserue the same pouder clear∣ly in some conuenient vessell, and when as any one feeleth himselfe strooken with the Plague, giue him presently halfe an ounce of this pouder in Rose water, or Scabious water, or in nine houres after he shall séele himselfe infected. This remedy in diuers persons and very oftentimes hath bene ex∣perimented, and hath wrought wonderfull effects, if it were giuen within the time prescribed.