That in the Year 1625, was bred and produced by rotten Mutton at _Stepney_; of which died 35403 Persons. That in the Year 1630, was brought to us by a Bale of Carpets from _Turkey_, of which died 1317 Persons. That in the Year 1636, was brought over to us by a Dog from _Amsterdam_; of which died 10400 Persons. That in the Year 1665, was brought from _Turkey_ in a Bale of Cotton to _Holland_, thence to _England_; in this great Plague died no less than 100,000 People. And at _Marseilles_, in this present Year 1720, the Plague has swept away more than 70000 Persons, which was brought in Goods from _Sidon_, a fam'd and ancient City and Sea-port in _Phoenicia_, and the same which sometimes is mentioned in Holy Writ. From the Neighbourhood of this last Contagion, the frightful Apprehensions of the People are rais'd to the greatest Height; and when every one is consulting his own Security, how to guard and preserve himself from that dreadful Enemy, nothing can come more seasonably to their Relief, than to lay before them a _Compendium_ of the best and approved Rules for their Conduct; to which End I have carefully collected, from the successful Practice of Dr. _Glisson_, Sir _Thomas Millington_, Dr. _Charlton_, and other Learned Physicians in the last Plague, with what only may be of Use from the abounding Prescripts of those who have lately published, and as this Evil is supported throughout the general Practice, it appears to be the Result of the Reasoning of some of the Learned Sons of _AEsculapius_, to marshal into the Field as many Compositions as if only by their Number they might be able to pull down the Tyranny of this fatal Destroyer. It would be a Work insuperable, and altogether foreign to the Method I have gone by, to extract all the Medicines which some Writers abound with for this End; it is our Business here chiefly to take Notice of that saving _Regimen_, that Rule of Self-governing, which proved more successful in the Preservation of the People in the late Plague, than all the abounding _Nostrums_ that have been crouded into the Practice, the which has become a due Reproach to the Faculty. _Turpe est Doctori, quem culpa redarguit ipsum._ And it is here worthy of our first Remark, That the last Plague, in the Year 1665, as well from the late Accounts we have of that at _Marseilles_, the poorer Sort of People were those that mostly suffered, which can only be attributed to their mean and low Fare, whereas the most nutritive and generous Diet should be promoted, and such as generate a warm and rich Blood, Plenty of Spirits, and what easily perspires, which otherwise would be apt to ferment and generate Corruption.