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plague tract

Plague tracts are among the most common forms of medical writing in the period. They describe signs of the disease; offer suggestions for therapeutics; and discuss larger-scale preventive measures such as quarantines.


There are 135 books tagged with this term.
 
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Thayre Thomas An excellent and best approoued treatise of the plague. Containing, the nature, signes, and accidents… 1625
Bradwell Stephen A vvatch-man for the pest. Teaching the true rules of preservation from the pestilent… 1625
[author not specified] Especiall obseruations, and approued physicall rules 1625
Royal College of Physicians of London The Kings medicines for the plague. Prescribed for the yeare 1604. by the whole Colledge… 1630
Boraston William A necessarie and briefe treatise of the contagious disease of the pestilence, with the causes… 1630
D. I. Salomons pest-house, or tovvre-royall. Nevvly re-edified and prepared to preserue Londoners with… 1630
D. I. Salomons pest-house, or tovvre-royall. Nevvly re-edified and prepared to preserue Londoners with… 1630
Paré Ambroise A treatise of the plague contayning the causes, signes, symptomes, prognosticks, and cure thereof : together… 1630
Brewer Thomas A dialogue betvvixt a cittizen, and a poore countrey-man and his wife, in the… 1636
Donne George The signes that doe declare a person to be infected with the pestilence. ... Preservatives against… 1636
[author not specified] Lord haue mercy vpon vs. A speciall remedy for the plague 1636
Herring Francis Certaine rules, directions, or advertisements for this time of pestilentiall contagion. With a caveat to… 1636
Taylor John The fearefull summer: or, Londons calamitie, the countries discourtesie, and both their miserie. Printed by… 1636
Royal College of Physicians of London The Kings medicines for the plague, prescribed for the yeare 1604. by the whole Colledge… 1636
[author not specified] The Red-crosse 1636
Bradwell Stephen Physick for the sicknesse, commonly called the plague. With all the particular signes and symptoms… 1636
Royal College of Physicians of London. Certain necessary directions, aswell for the cure of the plague, as for preuenting the infection… 1636
Royal College of Physicians of London Certain necessary directions, aswell for the cure of the plague, as for preuenting the infection… 1636
D. I. Salomons pest-house, or tovvre-royall. Nevvly re-edified and prepared to preserue Londoners with… 1636
D. I. Salomons pest-house, or tovvre-royall. Nevvly re-edified and prepared to preserue Londoners with… 1636
Brewer Thomas A dialogue betwixt a citizen, and a poore countrey-man and his wife, in the… 1636
C. H. Londons Lord have mercy vpon vs. A true relation of five modern plagues or visitations… 1637
Sherwood Thomas The charitable pestmaster, or, the cure of the plague, conteining a few short and necessary… 1641
Herring Francis Preservatives against the plague... 1641
Sherwood Thomas The charitable pestmaster, or, the cure of the pla… 1641
[author not specified] Physicall directions in time of plague 1644
[author not specified] Concerning the constitution of an aire infected and how to know plague-sores and carbuncles… 1644
[author not specified] Medicines against the pest 1645
D. T. Food and physick, for every housholder, & his family, during the time of the plague 1665
Baxter Richard London’s mortality... Or, Mr. Baxters precious antidote, for... the pestilence 1665