The shutting up infected houses as it is practised in England soberly debated By way of address from the poor souls that are visited, to their brethren that are free. With observations on the wayes whereby the present infection hath spread. As also a certain method of diet, attendance, lodging and physick, experimented in the recovery of many sick persons.

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The shutting up infected houses as it is practised in England soberly debated By way of address from the poor souls that are visited, to their brethren that are free. With observations on the wayes whereby the present infection hath spread. As also a certain method of diet, attendance, lodging and physick, experimented in the recovery of many sick persons.

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[London :: s.n.],

Printed in the year MDCLXV. [1665]

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Plague -- England -- Early works to 1800.

Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.

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"The shutting up infected houses as it is practised in England soberly debated By way of address from the poor souls that are visited, to their brethren that are free. With observations on the wayes whereby the present infection hath spread. As also a certain method of diet, attendance, lodging and physick, experimented in the recovery of many sick persons." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A60176.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed August 31, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• THE SHUTTING UP Infected Houses As it is practised in ENGLAND SOBERLY DEBATED.
  • section - 1
    • First Reason against shutting Men up for the Plague, From the Communion of Saints, and the practise of the Primitive Christians.
    • Second Reason against the shutting up of Houses infected with the Plague, From the spreading of the Infection by it.
    • Third Reason against shutting up Houses visited with the Plague from the experience of former times, when Plagues did not cease till there was freedom of Converse allowed.
    • Fourth Reason against shutting up of houses infected with the Plague, from the condition of those houses and the inhabitants thereof.
    • Fifth Reason against shutting men in infected Houses from the Condition of those Houses.
    • Sixt Reason against shutting up of Infected Houses, because that keeps Men in ignorance of the nature of and remedy against the Plague.
  • SECT. I. The Wayes whereby the Plague hath taken Men this year ob∣served by them that have conversed with the infected in order to the finding out of the true nature, original, and was of curing the Plague. Which may be a Caution to the Citty and Country.
  • SECT. II. Observations touching the Recovery of those that have been since April last cured of the Plague.
  • Seventh Reason why Houses should not be shut up for the Plague, Because people are so much afrighted out of Town, and the bad consequence thereof.