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 ... With a poem on the virtue of a laurel leaf for curing of a rheumatism. By W[illiam] B[olton]. Never before printed.

  • Willis, Thomas, 1621-1675
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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 ... With a poem on the virtue of a laurel leaf for curing of a rheumatism. By W[illiam] B[olton]. Never before printed. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : W. Crook, 1691.

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6 unnumbered leaves, 74 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf, 7 pages : engr. frontispiece (portrait) ; (8vo)

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Edited by J. Hemming
A poem upon a laurel-leaf (7 p. inserted after 2d prelim. leaf) has half title and colophon dated 1690. Text in Latin and English, the latter "paraphrastically translated by T. F., Gent"
Copy 1 Note: Bolton's poem (dated 1690) cropped. Last leaf of main work (imprimatur) wanting. Errata leaf bound at end of prelims. Bookplate of Duke of Sussex.
Copy 2 Note: Port. and Bolton's poem wanting but imprimatur leaf present.

References note

Wing W2853
Wing B3537
ESTC R1814
ESTC R35353
Wing (CD-Rom, 1996), W2853

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    EPB/B/54976/2.1

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