. Annals of medical history. s carriers of contagion but as the exhalersof stinking fumes which may becomemalignant. The poor are recommended a \arietyof aromatics, pills and potions, and areexhorted to cleanliness and to free inchil-gencc in tobacco smoke. For the out of doors he rccoMiiuciuls: The air may be purified by burning greatfires of pitch barrels, especially in close places;by discharging of great guns into infectiousstreets, by burning of Stinck pots or Stinckers asthey call them; besides many other ways whichat present time and paper denies us a recital of;Otherwise I would have i
. Annals of medical history. s carriers of contagion but as the exhalersof stinking fumes which may becomemalignant. The poor are recommended a \arietyof aromatics, pills and potions, and areexhorted to cleanliness and to free inchil-gencc in tobacco smoke. For the out of doors he rccoMiiuciuls: The air may be purified by burning greatfires of pitch barrels, especially in close places;by discharging of great guns into infectiousstreets, by burning of Stinck pots or Stinckers asthey call them; besides many other ways whichat present time and paper denies us a recital of;Otherwise I would have inserted many other DISCOURSE O F THE Plasue. Containing The Nature, Caufes, Signs, and Pre- fages of the Peftilence in general. Togetbervvith the ftate of theprefent moft rational Prefervatives for choice Curative Medicines both for Rich and feveral waies for purifying the air in houfes,ftreets,df. Publifhed for the benefit of this Great City of Linden, and Suburbs, By ^ideon Haney M. for ISljtl). Brooks, at llie Angci Ctrn^ill, near the Royal Exchange. I66j,Title page of Gideon Harveys Discourse of the Plague. and very considerable Secrets for Preservationand Cure, but I content myself to have servedthe Public, by divulging the most appositemethods, and choicest medicines that can becomposed or thought upon. ± This is the last paragra])h ni the book,and is about as audacious a piece of adver-tisement as one is likely to see, especiallytlu hint about the secrets which might bercxcalcd if it were not from lack of time andjxipcr. The same hick of time, as we shall GiDF-ON Harvey: Sidelights on Medical Life sec, also prevented him from giving thedetails of a certain secret cure for anothermalady. Doubtless both sets of secretsmight be had from the doctor uponpayment of a suitable honorarium. A second edition appeared in 1673. Froma quarto it had shrunk to an octavo, andthe title page is devoid of the Citys armsand of the i
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