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out before. An UNIVERSAL Remedy for the Plague. The ONLY-TRUE Plague-Water. The ROYAL-ANTIDOTE againſt all Kinds of Infection; and ſuch a Number more that I cannot reckon up; and if I could, would fill a Book of themſelves to ſet them down.

Others ſet up Bills, to ſummons People to their Lodgings for Directions and Advice in the Caſe of Infection: Theſe had ſpacious Titles alſo, ſuch as theſe.

An eminent High-Dutch Phyſician, newly come over from Holland, where he reſided during all the Time of the great Plague, laſt Year, in Amſterdam; and cured multitudes of People, that actually had the Plague upon them.
An Italian Gentlewoman juſt arrived from Naples, having a choice Secret to prevent Infection, which ſhe found out by her great Experience, and did wonderful Cures with it in the late Plague there; wherein there died 20000 in one Day.
An antient Gentlewoman having practiſed, with great Succeſs, in the late Plague in this City, Anno 1636, gives her advice only to the Female Sex. To be ſpoke with, &c.
An experienc'd Phyſician, who has long ſtudied the Doctrine of Antidotes againſt all Sorts of Poiſon and Infection, has after 40 Years Practiſe, arrived to ſuch Skill, as may, with God's Bleſſing, direct Perſons how to prevent their being touch'd by any Contagious Diſtemper whatſoever. He directs the Poor gratis.

I take notice of theſe by way of Specimen: I could give you two or three Dozen of the like, and yet have abundance left behind. 'Tis ſufficient from theſe to appriſe any one, of the Humour ofthoſe