Loimologia: Or, an Historical Account of the Plague in London in 1665 With Precautionary Directions Against the Like Contagion

IN the Months of _August_ and _September_, the Contagion chang’d its former slow and languid Pace, and having as it were got Master of all, made a most terrible Slaughter, so th...

As soon as the subtile Poison of a Contagion hath insinuated it self into the Mass of Blood, either through the Pores of the Skin, or other more open Passages, there is no doubt...

AND the Conjecture that a Sickness amongst Cattle is transferable to the humane Species, hath not yet appeared on any good Foundation; but to remove this Difficulty, no one doub...

I know in nothing indeed where there is a greater Intercourse and Sympathy; and a considerable Illustration of which may be made by the following Experiment. If any one in the S...

ANOTHER Case, almost beyond Belief, were it not attested by many Eye-Witnesses, was of a Woman, who immediately after Delivery had a Carbuncle appear upon her Breasts, when the...

THERE are other Symptoms also that denote the Agreement herein, such as large Stools, of a saline and fetid Nature, and which are with great Difficulty restrained by the most po...

‘BUT if these subtile and active Particles be of that Nature, that they can penetrate the Pores of other Animals, and occasion a like Coagulation of their Blood, not only Men, b...

These Prognosticks I thought my self obliged to take Notice of, by the Method I proposed to my self herein; but that I have omitted many, is to be excused by the Difficulty and...

℞ _Rad. liliorum alb. +℥ ij.+ porrorum, medullæ carnis ficuum ana +℥ j.+ sem. lini +℥ [ss.]+ flor. Sambuci, meliloti ana p. +[ss.]+ micarum panis alb. +lib. [ss.]+ coq. in s. q....

DR. _Plot_[20] tells us, That about Twenty Years since, two Persons were employed to dig a Well in the Parish of _North-Leigh_ in _Oxfordshire_, but upon being taken ill, left o...

BUT before I proceed further, Gratitude obliges me to do Justice to the Vertues of _Sack_, as it deservedly is ranked amongst the principal Antidotes, whether it be drank by it...

℞ _Radic, tormentillæ, angelicæ, pœoniæ, zedoariæ, glycirrhizæ, helenii ana +℥ [ss.]+ sol. Salviæ, Chelidoniæ, rutæ, summitat: rorismarini, absynthii, roris solis, artemisiæ, pi...

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BUT as some have sad Apprehensions from the Air being still, and as it were stagnant at such Times, and not without good Reason, as it favours the Collection of poisonous _Efflu...