Orders, thought meete by her Maiestie, and her priuie Councell, to be executed throughout the counties of this realme, in such townes, villages, and other places, as are, or may be hereafter infected with the plague, for the stay of further increase of the same Also, an aduise set downe vpon her Maiesties expresse commaundement, by the best learned in physicke within this realme, contayning sundry good rules and easie medicines, without charge to the meaner sort of people, aswell for the preseruation of her good subiects from the plague before infection, as for the curing and ordering of them after they shalbe infected.
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Orders, thought meete by her Maiestie, and her priuie Councell, to be executed throughout the counties of this realme, in such townes, villages, and other places, as are, or may be hereafter infected with the plague, for the stay of further increase of the same Also, an aduise set downe vpon her Maiesties expresse commaundement, by the best learned in physicke within this realme, contayning sundry good rules and easie medicines, without charge to the meaner sort of people, aswell for the preseruation of her good subiects from the plague before infection, as for the curing and ordering of them after they shalbe infected.
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England and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I)
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Imprinted at London :: By Christopher Barker, printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie,
[1578?]
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Plague -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Plague -- Prevention -- Early works to 1800.
Plague -- Treatment -- Early works to 1800.
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"Orders, thought meete by her Maiestie, and her priuie Councell, to be executed throughout the counties of this realme, in such townes, villages, and other places, as are, or may be hereafter infected with the plague, for the stay of further increase of the same Also, an aduise set downe vpon her Maiesties expresse commaundement, by the best learned in physicke within this realme, contayning sundry good rules and easie medicines, without charge to the meaner sort of people, aswell for the preseruation of her good subiects from the plague before infection, as for the curing and ordering of them after they shalbe infected." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A69358.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
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Preseruatiues Cordialls.
Mithridates Medicine.
TAke of good Figges not wormeaten, cleane
wasshed, of Walnuts ye kernels cleane picked,
of either of them an hundred, of the leaues of
greene Rue, otherwise called Herbgrace, ye weight
of ii. s. of common Salt the weight of iiii. d. cut
the Figges in pieces, and stampe them and the
Walnut kernels together in a morter of Marble
or wood a good space, vntil they be very smal, and
then put your Rue leaues vnto them, stampe and
stirre them well together with the rest, last put in
the Salt and stampe and stirre these things toge∣ther,
vntill they be encorporated and made of one
substance. Of the which take the quantitie of ii. or
iii. Figges euery morning fasting, to children the
halfe wil serue, and he that listeth to increase or di∣minish
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the substance of this Medicine, shall easely
do it, by taking of a greater or lesse quantitie of the
simples according to a due proportion.
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