The Charitable Pestmaster; Or, The Cure of the Plague / Conteining a few short and necessary instructions how to preserve the body from infection of the plagve, as also to cure those that are infected. Together with a little treatise concerning the cure of the small pox.

Conteining a few ſhort and neceſſary inſtructions how to preſerve the body from infection of the Plagve, as alſo to cure thoſe that are Infected.
Together with a little treatiſe concerning the cure of the Small Pox.
Publiſhed for the benefit of the poore of this City and not unmeet for the Rich,
By Thomas Sherwood Practitioner in PHYSICK .
2 Kings 20.7. And Isaiah ſaid, take a lump of Figs, and they tooke, and laid it upon the boil, and he recovered.
LONDON Printed by A.N. for John Francklin , and are to be ſold at his Shop in Lothbury , neer the Windmill. 1641.
To the Worſhipfull Alexander Read , Doctor of Phyſick and Chirurgery, one of the Societie of the Colledge of Phyſicians for the Citie of London .
For I intended that they ſhould be Protectors for themſelves: but however I hope that my endeavours in this ſmall treatiſe will not be unpleaſant, but acceptable to you, for the good which I believe it will do in the World; and ſo for this time I reſt in ſome meaſure of aſſurance of your worſhips favour.
Your Servant, Tho: Sherwood.
Thine T. S.
1. What are the cauſes of the Peſtilence. 2. How they are avoided. 3. Means to preſerve the body from Infection.
There are divers cauſes of this diſeaſe. The firſt is ſin, which ought to be repented of. The ſecond an infected and corrupted air, which ſhould be avoided. The third an evill diet, which ſhould be amended. The fourth are evill humours heaped together in the body, being apt to putrifie, and beget a Fever, which muſt be taken away by convenient medicines.