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The Charitable Pestmaster; Or, The Cure of the Plague: Conteining a few short and necessary instructions how to preserve the body from infection of the plagve, as also to cure those that are infected. Together with a little treatise concerning the cure of the small pox.Sherwood, Thomas, Practitioner in physick

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The Charitable Pestmaster; Or, The Cure of the Plague: Conteining a few short and necessary instructions how to preserve the body from infection of the plagve, as also to cure those that are infected. Together with a little treatise concerning the cure of the small pox.

Name: The Charitable Pestmaster; Or, The Cure of the Plague: Conteining a few short and necessary instructions how to preserve the body from infection of the plagve, as also to cure those that are infected. Together with a little treatise concerning the cure of the small pox.
Author: Sherwood, Thomas, Practitioner in physick

Sherwood, Thomas, Practitioner in physick

Plague -- Early works to 1800; Smallpox -- Early works to 1800

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                         THE

               Charitable Peſtmaſter,

                         OR,

                   The cure of the

                       PLAGUE,

  Conteining a few ſhort and neceſſary inſtructions
   how to preſerve the body from infection of the
     P L A G V E, as alſo to cure thoſe that are
                      Infected.

     _Together with a little treatiſe concerning
              the cure of the Small Pox._

   Publiſhed for the benefit of the poore of this
          City and not unmeet for the Rich,

  _By T h o m a s  S h e r w o o d Practitioner in
                      PHYSICK._

                   _2 Kings 20.7._

   _And I S A I A H ſaid, take a lump of Figs, and
    they tooke, and laid it upon the boil, and he
                     recovered._


                       LONDON
   Printed by _A.N._ for _John Francklin_, and are
    to be ſold at his Shop in _Lothbury_, neer the
                   Windmill. 1641.




  To the Worſhipfull _Alexander Read_,
    Doctor of Phyſick and Chirurgery,
       one of the Societie of the
        Colledge of Phyſicians for
          the Citie of _London_.


_Sir, having finiſhed this_ treatiſe, _I conſidered what entertainment
it might find in the world; and fearing, that it would be envied, for
the good that it offereth unto this Kingdome, as I the Author have
been for my practice, I bethought my ſelfe that it might ſafely hover
under your wings, whereupon I am bold to thruſt it into your
protection, that it may the better be defended from the calumnies of
theſe times. The Subject of it is, that which I have practiſed and
proved by Experience, ſo that if there bee occaſion, I believe I ſhall
bee able to render ſufficient reaſons to prove it, from the moſt
Authentique rules in Phyſick. And if there be any errors eſcaped in
it, I ſhall rather deſire that they may be corrected by the diſcretiõ
of you or any of the Colledg of Phyſicians, than diſputed upon by new
beginners in the practice of Phyſick, who have but ſmall experience.
As for thoſe Medicines publiſhed at the latter end of this booke, I
ſhall not deſire your protection for them, becauſe I never made you,
nor any man acquainted with them. For I intended that they ſhould be
Protectors for themſelves: but however I hope that my endeavours in
this ſmall treatiſe will not be unpleaſant, but acceptable to you, for
the good which I believe it will do in the World; and ſo for this time
I reſt in ſome meaſure of aſſurance of your worſhips favour._

                                        Your Servant,
                                            Tho: Sherwood.




_To the friendly Reader._

The Charitable Pestmaster; Or, The Cure of the Plague: Conteining a few short and necessary instructions how to preserve the body from infection of the plagve, as also to cure those that are infected. Together with a little treatise concerning the cure of the small pox.

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