A number of works focused on a single disease; plague was far and away the most common topic for such a work. Scurvy, gout, and ‘fevers’ were other topics o specific works. For us. ‘fever’ is a symptom, but it was understood as more of a multiform disease.
The fearefull summer: or, Londons calamitie, the countries discourtesie, and both their miserie. Printed by…