TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. [Illustration: Book Cover.] TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE. The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain. A COLLECTION OF Seven and Fifty approved RECEIPTS Good againſt the PLAGUE. Taken out of the Five Books of that Renowned D^r. _DON ALEXES_ Secrets, for the benefit of the poorer ſort of people of theſe Nations. By _W. J._ Gent. [Illustration] _LONDON_, Printed by _Peter Lillicrap_, for _John Wingfield_ at the Bible and Anchor in Tower-street near Mark-lane end. 1665. [Illustration] The Author to the READER. Courteous Reader, [Illustration: I] _through Gods divine providence, have had at ſeveral times, great occaſion to make uſe of Medicines for the health of my own body, as namely in the year 1642, for Cuts and Shots, where then I came acquainted, and into familiarity with Maſter_ George Dunne _Chyrurgion, Maſter_ Leadbeater _the Apothecary, Maſter_ Guye, _Maſter_ Hicks, _and Maſter_ Nicholas Culpepper, _by whoſe familiarity I loſt nothing, in the end of _September 1663_ our houſe was viſited with the Plague, one died before we knew what it was, the family was five in number, I lay in the ſame bedding the deceaſed dyed out of, he dyed full of the marks, I had a Boyle in my Groyne that never brake, but went away by purging and vomiting, my fellow had one that brake, yet none dyed but the firſt, I helpt to Coffin about ſix perſons, in one family at that time, yet by Gods providence am yet alive, in the year 1649, I had a long ſickneſs from_ Midſomer _till_ Chriſtmas, _of that miſerable diſeaſe called the griping or plague of the Guts, which cauſed me to ſearch all publick means for cure, and having ſpent what means I had upon Doctors like the woman that had the bloudy Iſſue: And all gave me over for dead, I betook me to ſearch for directions in books, and after the reading of many providence guided me to light upon the moſt excellent and approved Works of that famous Doctor named_ DON ALEXES, _a man well ſkilled in the Latine Greek, Hebrew Chaldes and Arabick tongues, and of divers other Nations and Countreys, he being naturally inclined and took a ſingular pleaſure in Phyloſophy, and in the ſecrets of nature, he travelled ſeven and twenty years to gain knowledge, the five books were tranſlated into Engliſh by Maſter_ William Ward _and Maſter_ Richard Andrews _and Dedicated unto the Right honourable_ Francis _Lord_ Ruſſell _Earl of_ Bedford, _but leſt I ſhould make my Porch greater then my building, I do refer thoſe that would be further ſatisfied, unto thoſe five books aforeſaid, where they ſhall finde every one inſerted, I gathered them at firſt for my own perticular private uſe, but conſidering the ſcarcity of the books and altogether at an extraordinary dear rate, I have for the publick benefit of all