A plain and easie method for preserving [by God's blessing] those that are well from the infection of the plague, or any contagious distemper in city, camp, fleet, &c. and for curing such as are infected with it. Written in the year 1666
By: By Tho. Willis ... With a poem on the virtue of a laurel leaf for curing of a rheumatism. By W[illiam] B[olton]. Never before printed
Contributors: Bolton, William, 1650 or 1651-1691; T. F.; Hemming, J., active 1666-1690
Publisher: W. Crook
Published: 1691
Place of publication: London
Language: mul
Number of pages: 74
Subjects: Medicine; Plague
Notes: Edited by J. Hemming.

A poem upon a laurel-leaf (7 p. inserted after 2d prelim. leaf) has half title and colophon dated 1690. Text in Latin and English, the latter "paraphrastically translated by T. F., Gent"

Wing W2853.

Wing B3537.

ESTC R1814.

ESTC R35353.

Wing (CD-Rom, 1996), W2853.

Copy 1 Note: Bolton's poem (dated 1690) cropped. Last leaf of main work (imprimatur) wanting. Errata leaf bound at end of prelims. Bookplate of Duke of Sussex.

Copy 2 Note: Port. and Bolton's poem wanting but imprimatur leaf present.