Produced by Louise Hope [Transcriber’s Note: This text uses UTF-8 (unicode) file encoding, primarily for the letters ã ẽ ĩ õ ũ (vowel with following n or m) ʒ (ezh, used here for the “dram” symbol) If any of these characters do not display properly, or if the apostrophes and quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, make sure your text reader’s “character set” or “file encoding” is set to Unicode (UTF-8). You may also need to change the default font. As a last resort, use the ASCII-7 version of the file instead. The text is taken from the 1912 Cambridge edition of Caius’s _Complete Works_. The editor’s general introduction says: In this volume no attempt has been made to produce a facsimile reprint. Even if such a design had been entertained, the great variety of form in which the original editions were issued would have made it impossible to carry out the re-issue with any uniformity. Obvious misprints have been corrected, but where a difference in spelling in the same work or on the same page--_e.g._ _baccalarius_, _baccalaureus_--is clearly due to the varying practice of the writer and not to the printer, the words have been left as they stood in the original. On the other hand the accents in the very numerous Greek quotations have been corrected. Numbers in parentheses (2, 3, 4...) were printed in the gutter; they probably represent leaves of the 1552 original. Bracketed corrections are from the 1912 text. Sidenotes are shown in brackets. Superscripts are shown with ^ marks. Typographical errors are listed at the end of the e-text. The usual disclaimers apply. Do not try this at home.] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * A boke or coun- seill against the disease commonly called the sweate or swea- tyng sicknesse made by Jhon Caius doctour in phisicke uery necessary for everye personne and much requi- site to be had in the handes of al sortes, for their better instruction, preparation and defence, against the soub- dein comyng, and fear- ful assaultyng of the same disease 1552 TO THE RIGHTE HONOURABLE WILLIAM EARLE OF PENBROKE, LORDE HARBERT OF CARDIFE, KNIGHT OF THE HONOUR- ABLE ORDRE OF THE GARTER, AND PRESIDENT OF THE KYNGES HIGHNES COUNSEILL IN THE MARCHES OF WALES: JHON CAIUS WISHETH HELTH AND HONOUR.