a book of themselves to set them down.

Others set up bills to summon people to their lodgings for direction and
advice in the case of infection. These had specious 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 20,000 in one day.

An ancient gentlewoman having practiced with great success in
the late plague in this city, anno 1636, gives her advice
only to the female sex. To be spoken with, etc.

An experienced physician, who has long studied the doctrine of
antidotes against all sorts of poison and infection, has,
after forty years' practice, arrived at such skill as may,
with God's blessing, direct persons how to prevent being
touched 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. It is sufficient
from these to apprise any one of the humor of those times, and how a set