Two
Letters
Cond●●●●g●●●e
Cure
of
the
PLAGUE
The
one
to
THOMAS
ELYOT
Esq
;
one
of
the
Grooms
of
the
Bed
Chamber
●●●●s
Maiesty
,
The
other
to
the
Mayor
of
the
town
of
Southampton
,
both
from
Thomas
O
Dowd
Esq
;
a
Licensed
Chymicall
P●ysician
,
and
one
of
the
Grooms
of
the
Chamber
to
his
Majesty
King
Charles
.
SIR
,
ON
the
sight
of
his
Majesties
Commands
by
the
Lord
Ashl●es
Letter
to
the
Chymists
,
I
hartily
prayed
,
that
it
might
fall
to
my
lot
to
be
the
person
,
that
should
be
sent
to
that
Miserable
Town
of
Southampton
;
and
this
I
desire
you
to
acquaint
His
Majesty
with
,
not
that
I
want
imployment
,
or
money
,
and
can
make
it
appear
,
from
real
fact
,
that
I
every
day
Cure
all
sorts
of
Persons
of
the
Plague
,
(
and
that
in
six
hours
many
)
and
can
and
do
daily
go
as
far
into
Infected
families
,
as
any
Alian
or
Stranger
,
relying
on
the
strength
of
his
Fumes
or
Ameletes
,
and
should
at
this
gracious
offer
of
his
Majesty
been
content
,
to
have
gone
to
Southampton
,
without
other
terms
,
but
obedience
to
His
pious
Commands
,
and
therefore
now
humbly
beg
,
that
on
the
next
deporable
,
Condition
,
of
any
other
his
Majesties
subjects
;
in
any
part
of
his
dominions
I
may
receive
his
Majesties
Commands
,
which
will
be
Expeditious
wings
to
the
reliefe
of
his
deplorable
subjects
in
that
Condition
;
which
without
vanity
,
and
by
the
blessed
assistance
of
a
gracious
God
is
not
Inferior
,
to
any
the
Administrations
of
the
sons
of
men
,
and
that
His
Majesty
may
be
assured
in
this
truth
,
let
me
be
Commanded
into
any
Pest-house
or
other
the
most
Infected
houses
of
this
town
,
Sir
I
adress
this
Letter
to
you
as
my
very
worthy
friend
,
and
that
I
know
you
to
be
,
a
person
of
pious
principles
and
that
you
may
not
be
surprised
,
by
a
Letter
from
a
man
of
my
profession
,
and
undartakings
at
this
time
,
I
only
indite
at
a
distance
,
And
give
order
to
a
second
hand
,
to
adress
it
to
you
which
I
own
,
as
the
Ast
of
,
Sir
,
your
humble
servant
Thomas
O
Dowde
.
July
the
13th
1665.
SIR
,
THat
you
may
be
assured
of
the
Princely
Compasion
,
of
his
Majesty
to
the
deplorable
state
of
your
visited
town
,
and
being
informed
,
that
all
your
Physicians
,
Chyrurgions
,
&
Apothicaries
,
have
left
you
,
at
such
a
time
when
men
of
their
prefession
,
should
be
most
solicitous
of
doing
good
,
we
the
Chymicall
Physicians
in
Habiting
in
this
City
,
having
received
his
Majesties
Commands
by
a
Letter
from
the
Right
Honorable
the
Lord
Ashley
to
prepare
and
a
point
a
person
out
of
our
number
,
by
Gods
assistance
,
for
your
reliefe
and
stop
of
your
present
Plague
and
Pestilence
;
and
hath
likewise
out
of
his
pious
inclination
for
the
good
of
you
his
people
,
ordred
100l
.
for
the
person
,
asigned
,
with
assurance
of
his
farther
Princely
bounty
,
w●
have
n
minated
a
very
worthy
and
Learned
person
Doctor
Edward
Bolnest
;
and
now
from
my
own
inclinations
;
to
the
good
of
mankind
and
in
obedience
to
the
Commands
of
the
best
of
Kings
my
Royall
Master
,
I
have
made
this
humble
adresse
,
a
Copy
whereof
I
have
here
inclosed
sent
you
,
that
you
and
all
the
Nation
may
see
,
that
God
has
raised
up
men
Charitably
designing
the
wellfare
of
their
neighbours
;
with
the
Hazard
of
their
own
,
and
in
Case
your
necessities
yet
require
the
hand
of
the
Physician
,
and
declined
by
him
appoined
,
obtain
but
his
Majesties
Commands
to
me
I
shall
freely
,
and
Immediatly
give
you
the
best
assistance
,
put
by
the
God
of
Heaven
into
the
Hand
of
Sir
,
Your
Compasionate
friend
and
servant
Thomas
O
Dowde
.
From
my
Laboratory
over
against
St.
Clements
in
the
strand
,
this
15th
of
July
1665
HAving
this
day
perused
the
Bill
of
Mortality
and
finding
it
to
mount
to
1089
and
Consulting
with
my
dayly
observations
;
the
many
and
indeed
innumerable
prescriptions
,
vended
to
the
people
,
besides
those
of
Ounions
,
Garlicke
,
Musterd
,
Figges
,
Rue
,
Treacle
,
Metheredate
&c.
old
and
rediculous
prescriptiones
(
now
new
vampt
,
)
by
those
Learned
Runaway
Dutchmen
of
Amen
Corner
,
that
not
many
weeks
since
at
plentiful
Tables
quaffing
in
merry
Bowls
,
would
not
discourse
of
less
the●
out
Hectoring
the
severest
Plague
,
and
by
there
termes
of
Art
,
as
useless
prescriptions
assured
you
of
there
Cures
in
that
kind
to
thousands
,
bu●●ow
good
men
(
two
of
their
tribe
onely
excepted
,
)
not
to
be
heard
of
almost
on
this
side
Barwick
or
Pendenice
,
these
are
the
learned
me●●●●●
neither
dare
trust
God
nor
their
Heathenish
Authors
,
in
the
City
,
that
at
other
times
,
flock
about
your
sick
beds
,
and
like
water
men
〈◇〉
sir
,
God
in
Infinite
mercy
cease
this
present
Plague
,
and
grant
,
that
that
Locus
of
Amen
Corner
never
return
again
,
to
be
a
Plague
or
Pernience
,
to
this
most
glorious
City
,
but
that
it
may
injoy
health
as
that
Ancient
City
of
Room
500
years
,
without
a
man
of
that
profession
,
unless
they
lay
aside
insolency
and
pride
;
and
assume
like
the
well
meaning
Chymist
Courage
and
resolusion
,
to
visite
the
afflicted
,
as
there
duties
to
see
with
their
own
Eyes
,
and
feel
with
there
own
hands
,
(
not
trusting
Examiners
)
and
then
truly
and
faithfuly
administring
,
those
specificks
,
that
according
to
the
intent
of
God
and
Nature
heal
the
sicke
,
and
save
the
sound
,
and
such
must
be
,
true
Hermetick
Physick
,
not
rotten
dull
druges
;
and
untill
such
Physicians
and
medicines
;
shall
be
Countinanced
and
imploid
though
Jacke
,
Will
,
and
Dike
,
as
a
grave
Colegiate
(
though
no
Conjurer
)
not
long
since
to
me
stild
the
Chymists
,
neither
this
present
plague
,
nor
other
Acute
,
nor
Cronicall
diseases
shall
ever
be
truly
Cured
,
but
in
time
of
greatest
Calamity
,
shall
be
left
to
the
devouring
malady
,
by
E.
F.
A.
and
the
worshipfull
Sir
J.
himself
whilest
they
go
a
simpling
,
as
a
witty
gentleman
,
one
of
there
own
late
admirers
by
this
folowing
letter
to
me
,
merrily
expresseth
.
Deer
Dr.
I
Was
infinitely
pleased
with
your
present
,
and
am
now
as
thankfull
,
I
guess
by
what
I
read
there
in
Print
,
your
noble
fraternity
is
become
a
Corporation
,
if
so
,
I
owe
you
a
bonefire
,
and
a
peal
in
the
Belfry
,
and
cannot
I
speak
it
without
flatery
,
or
Complement
but
exceedingly
Commend
,
the
noble
Chymistes
who
so
Christianly
and
nobly
sticke
to
miserably
afflicted
London
;
an
action
which
gains
honour
here
,
but
a
better
Garland
hereafter
;
whilst
the
Gallinest
flye
the
diseased
City
,
and
run
a
simpling
into
the
Cuntery
;
which
suites
well
enough
,
with
their
deceived
and
deceiving
,
method
,
and
therein
they
shew
themselves
as
very
Heathens
,
as
there
Grandsire
Gallen
;
they
formerly
stuck
Closs
to
a
Dispensatory
,
but
now
want
of
honor
and
Conscience
;
furnishes
them
with
another
Dispensatory
;
not
of
practise
,
but
of
the
duty
of
their
profession
,
in
runing
away
in
this
time
of
Mortality
,
these
Dutchmen
of
Amen
Corner
;
these
enemies
to
England
,
no
Satyrist
can
pinch
them
hard
enough
,
yet
in
all
my
anger
,
were
I
as
knowing
in
their
rotten
drugs
,
as
I
am
of
their
putrified
actions
,
I
would
make
them
immortall
in
a
Ballet
,
To
the
tune
of
Robin
Hood
,
if
this
be
the
way
to
bring
Phlebotomy
to
honor
,
may
I
never
see
Horse-Leech
more
,
our
Brother
of
—
lately
wished
the
Turke
into
Christendom
,
and
were
it
not
for
Dr.
H.
and
Dr.
B.
I
my selfe
,
would
invite
the
Ottoman
Family
to
make
war
upon
them
,
if
they
scapt
his
Semiter
,
his
Bow
string
would
prove
as
good
as
any
of
Hipocrates
Aphorismes
,
Deer
Dr.
I
was
glad
to
see
that
under
Rawlinsons
hand
,
to
take
off
that
base
unworthy
scandall
,
of
Johnson
;
though
to
me
it
signified
nothing
for
I
my selfe
did
heer
Rawlinson
Confess
,
himself
Cured
by
you
,
with
a
civill
and
humble
acknowledgment
;
of
your
Care
and
Cure
of
him
,
before
many
witnesses
in
his
own
house
;
pray
Jog
Mr.
G.
that
I
may
have
an
occasion
to
come
to
London
,
I
long
to
be
in
your
Laboratory
,
to
tell
you
,
Deer
Dr.
that
I
am
your
very
humble
servant
.
W.
R.
July
the
7th
ANd
thus
the
world
may
see
that
these
men
of
Art
and
Method
,
who
not
many
moneths
since
,
sported
themselves
,
in
rediculous
follies
in
the
face
of
this
glorious
City
,
by
scurrilous
Ballets
,
against
the
true
healing
Chymists
,
and
by
it
asigned
us
to
be
distroyed
by
their
fellow
Dutchmen
,
as
the
greatest
Enemies
to
his
Majesty
and
people
;
and
now
themselves
,
fled
and
leave
their
reputation
to
be
trampled
like
Dun
in
the
mire
,
&c.
by
perpetuall
infamy
never
to
be
obliterated
,
shall
ever
by
my
hourly
indeavors
,
and
to
advance
that
noblest
,
best
,
truest
,
and
most
safest
Art
of
Pyrotechnie
as
a
duty
incombant
on
my
Conscience
,
if
in
the
prosecution
I
perish
,
be
it
to
Gods
glory
,
and
I
have
my
ends
,
and
that
the
true
honour
of
God
and
the
good
of
the
people
in
this
present
Calamity
may
be
advanced
,
I
doe
freely
and
faithfully
with
my
utmost
indeavours
,
and
best
of
Art
and
Medicine
,
(
and
think
it
not
be
low
the
honour
of
a
Physician
)
offer
my
service
to
all
sorts
and
degrees
of
people
during
this
present
distemper
of
the
plague
,
without
the
least
expectation
of
fees
or
gratuities
,
if
not
well
able
to
spare
it
,
provided
I
have
admition
of
egress
and
regrses
,
into
every
infected
family
,
and
will
be
Content
,
with
barely
the
value
of
my
medicines
,
and
those
at
so
reasonable
Rates
,
as
not
to
the
abuse
of
either
rich
or
poor
,
and
this
not
designed
out
of
vain
glory
;
or
other
end
but
Christian
bowels
of
Compasion
,
as
it
is
the
Cause
of
God
,
the
King
and
the
Nation
,
with
hope
that
all
those
of
our
number
of
Chymicall
Physicians
will
do
the
like
,
that
so
we
may
have
the
blessing
of
God
on
our
just
undertakings
,
and
the
prayers
and
Countinance
of
good
men
,
to
suport
us
in
our
intensions
against
the
worst
of
men
,
that
only
boast
of
Learned
ignorance
,
and
are
truely
ignorant
in
the
art
of
healing
,
as
by
my
next
Book
A
whip
for
Gallianism
&c.
Now
preparing
for
the
Press
will
appear
,
to
the
detecting
that
greatest
of
Cheates
the
method
of
Physick
Galennicall
let
them
suport
it
by
jugling
detraction
and
the
spiriting
of
poor
Mr.
Johnson
their
Laboratoring
druge
to
vend
their
Bilingsgate
frip
,
as
a
broken
Champion
,
to
their
reeling
worships
;
that
can
in
all
his
discourse
for
them
,
boast
of
nothing
,
but
there
gravity
and
learning
,
(
not
healing
)
yet
I
think
not
so
good
an
Antiquery
,
as
to
know
that
this
formall
Seminary
,
was
in
its
first
institution
,
but
seven
in
number
,
two
only
Physicians
and
five
Studients
,
as
I
am
Credibly
informed
,
but
now
so
numerous
a
spawn
,
as
fitted
to
run
a
way
in
whole
showles
,
blessed
be
God
for
all
his
mercies
,
Amen
.