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  • A mite cast into the treasury of the famous city of London : being a brief and methodical discourse of the nature, causes, symptoms, remedies, and preservation of the plague in the calamitous year 1665 / digested into aphorismes by Theophilus Garencieres.

    • Garencières, Theophilus, 1610-1680.
    Date
    1666
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  • Disputatio medica de peste, morborum principe ... / sub praesidio ... Conradi Victoris Schneideri ... publicae disquisitioni subjiciet Johannes Gerdes ... Anno M DC LXXX.

    • Schneider, Konrad Victor, 1614-1680.
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    [1680]
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  • A shorte learned and pithie treatize of the plague : wherin are handled these two questions: the one, whether the plague bee infectious, or no: the other, whether and howe farre it may of Christians bee shunned by going aside. A discourse very necessary for this our tyme, and country; to satisfie the doubtful consciences of a great number: written in Latin by the famous & worthy diuine Theodore Beza Vezelian; and newly turned into English, by Iohn Stockwood, schoolemaister of Tunbridge.

    • Bèze, Théodore de, 1519-1605.
    Date
    1580
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  • An enquiry after the house to be let: or, the reason why it stands untenanted. My very good friend, being of late somewhat troubled in my mind, I retired to the most inaccessable places this town cou'd afford (such as are the battlements of St. Patrick's, or Christ-Church) to shun the world; ...

    • Philanthropos.
    Date
    1714]
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  • The Red-crosse, or, Englands Lord have mercie upon us : [l?]amentable relation of many visitations by the plague in times past, as well in other countries as in the citie of London, and the certaine causes thereof : with a true number of all those that dyed in the last great visitation, and also the number of all those that have dyed in this present visitation.

    Date
    1636
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  • The regiment of life, whereunto is added a treatise of the pestilence, with the booke of children, newly corrected and enlarged by Thomas Phaire.

    • Goeurot, Jean.
    Date
    [Anno Domini. 1553]
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  • [A dialogue both pleasant and piety-full, against the fever pestilence.].

    • Bullein, William, -1576.
    Date
    [1564]
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  • A moche profitable treatise against the pestilence : translated into Eglyshe by Thomas Paynel Chanon of Martin Abbey.

    • Paynell, Thomas, active 1528-1567.
    Date
    1534
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  • The poore mans iewell : (So called bicause of the great commoditie that may come vnto the poore, by the vse, and practise of the documents, and instructions therin contained: and bicause both the booke, and the contents therof are cheape, and easie to be gotten, and practised of the poorest.) Now the second time set foorth, somwhat augmented by the author. It containeth a treatise of the pestilence, togither with a declaration of the vertues of the hearbs carduus benedictus, and angelica: (which are very medicinable, both against the plague, and also against many other diseases:) gathered out of the bookes of diuers learned physitions: prooued by the practise of the author, and of many other since the first edition: which was in the yeere of the Lord, 1580.

    • Brasbridge, Thomas, active 1590.
    Date
    1592
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  • A passing gode lityll boke necessarye [and] behouefull a[g]enst the pestilence.

    • Joannes Jacobi, -1384. Régime de l'épidémie.
    Date
    [1485?]
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