THE Charitable Peſtmaſter, Or, The cure of the PLAGUE,
Reading edition
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.
Sir, having finiſhed this treatiſe, I conſidered what entertainment it might find in the world; and fearing, that it would be envied, for the good that it offereth unto this Kingdome, as I the Author have been for my practice, I bethought my ſelfe that it might ſafely hover under your wings, whereupon I am bold to thruſt it into your protection, that it may the better be defended from the calumnies of theſe times. The Subject of it is, that which I have practiſed and proved by Experience, ſo that if there bee occaſion, I believe I ſhall bee able to render ſufficient reaſons to prove it, from the moſt Authentique rules in Phyſick. And if there be any errors eſcaped in it, I ſhall rather deſire that they may be corrected by the diſcretiõ of you or any of the Colledg of Phyſicians, than diſputed upon by new beginners in the practice of Phyſick, who have but ſmall experience. As for thoſe Medicines publiſhed at the latter end of this booke, I ſhall not deſire your protection for them, becauſe I never made you, nor any man acquainted with them.
Your Servant, Tho: Sherwood.
