An hospitall for the diseased wherein are to bee founde moste excellent and approued medicines, as well emplasters of speciall vertue, as also notable potions or drinkes, and other comfortable receptes, bothe for the restitution and the preseruation of bodily healthe : very necessary for this tyme of common plague and immortalitie, and for other tymes when occasion shall require : with a newe addition / gathered by T.C.

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Title: An hospitall for the diseased wherein are to bee founde moste excellent and approued medicines, as well emplasters of speciall vertue, as also notable potions or drinkes, and other comfortable receptes, bothe for the restitution and the preseruation of bodily healthe : very necessary for this tyme of common plague and immortalitie, and for other tymes when occasion shall require : with a newe addition / gathered by T.C.
Author: T. C., fl. 1579.
Publication: Imprinted at London :: For Edward White, at the little northdore of Paules Churche, at the signe of the gun, and are there to bee solde,; 1579.
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Subject terms: Materia medica -- Early works to 1800.; Plague -- Treatment.; Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
Cite this Item: "An hospitall for the diseased wherein are to bee founde moste excellent and approued medicines, as well emplasters of speciall vertue, as also notable potions or drinkes, and other comfortable receptes, bothe for the restitution and the preseruation of bodily healthe : very necessary for this tyme of common plague and immortalitie, and for other tymes when occasion shall require : with a newe addition / gathered by T.C." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A17489.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 15, 2024.

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A soueraigne drinke against the Pestilence.

TAke one vnce of Sorrell water, and as muche Dra∣gon water, adragme of Treacle, and putte thereto a ••ragine and a halfe of pouder imperiall, and geue it to the patient with Ale within foure and twentie houres after he is infected, and he shall with Goddes grace escape and doe well.