A plain and easie method for preserving by God's blessing those that are well from the infection of the plague, or any contagious distemper in city, camp, fleet, &c. and for curing such as are infected with it. Written in the year 1666. By Tho. Willis, M.D. late Sidney Professor in Oxford, and a Member of the Royal Society and College of Physicians in London. With a poem on the virtue of a laurel leaf for curing of a rheumatism, by W.B. Never before printed

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  • A plain and easie method for preserving by God's blessing those that are well from the infection of the plague, or any contagious distemper in city, camp, fleet, &c. and for curing such as are infected with it. Written in the year 1666. By Tho. Willis, M.D. late Sidney Professor in Oxford, and a Member of the Royal Society and College of Physicians in London. With a poem on the virtue of a laurel leaf for curing of a rheumatism, by W.B. Never before printed
  • Plain and easie method for preserving those that are well from the infection of the plague
  • Poem upon a laurel-leaf; Poem upon a laurel leaf
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Imprint
London : printed for W. Crook, at the Green-Dragon, without Temple-Bar, 1691.
Added name
T. F., Gent. tr.; Bolton, William, 1650 or 1651-1691. In laurum Appollini dicatam. English & Latin.; Hemming, J., ed.; White, Robert, 1645-1703, engraver.
Publication year
1691
ESTC No.
R1814
Grub Street ID
72004
Description
[14], 74, 7, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : port. (metal cut) ; 8°
Note
Editor's preface signed: J. Hemming

With a frontispiece portrait of the author (plate), signed: R.W. sculp., i.e. Robert White

The words "by God's blessing" are enclosed in square brackets on title page

Preliminaries include an imprimatur leaf and an errata leaf

"A poem upon a laurel-leaf" has divisional title page, separate pagination, and a colophon dated 1690. It is a translation by T.F. Gent. of "In laurum Appollini dicatam" by William Bolton. The poem is printed in Latin and English on facing pages. It may also have been published separately (Wing B3537)

Identified as Wing W2852 on UMI microfilm "Early English books, 1641-1700" reel 969; poem identified as B3537 reel 1143.
Uncontrolled note
Pagination reflects British Library copy