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ã ẽ ĩ õ ũ (vowel with following n or m) ʒ (ezh, used here for the “dram” symbol)
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The text is taken from the 1912 Cambridge edition of Caius’sComplete Works. The editor’s general introduction says:
In this volume no attempt has been made to produce a facsimile reprint.Even if such a design had been entertained, the great variety of form inwhich the original editions were issued would have made it impossible tocarry out the re-issue with any uniformity. Obvious misprints have beencorrected, but where a difference in spelling in the same work or on thesame page—e.g. baccalarius, baccalaureus—isclearly due to the varying practice of the writer and not to theprinter, the words have been left as they stood in the original. On theother hand the accents in the very numerous Greek quotations have beencorrected.
Numbers in the right margin mark the pagination of this 1912 edition.Numbers in parentheses—here shown in the left margin—wereprinted in the gutter; they probably represent pages or leaves in the1552 original. Bracketed corrections are from the 1912 text.
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A boke or coun- seill against the disease commonly called the sweate or swea- tyng sicknesse
made by Jhon Caius doctour in phisicke
uery necessary for everye personne and much requi- site to be had in the handes of al sortes, for their better instruction, preparation and defence, against the soub- dein comyng, and fear- ful assaultyng of the same disease
1552
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TO THE RIGHTE HONOURABLE WILLIAM EARLE OF PENBROKE, LORDE HARBERT OF CARDIFE, KNIGHT OF THE HONOUR- ABLE ORDRE OF THE GARTER, AND PRESIDENT OF THE KYNGES HIGHNES COUNSEILL IN THE MARCHES OF WALES: JHON CAIUS WISHETH HELTH AND HONOUR.
In the fereful tyme of the sweate(ryghte honourable) many resorted vnto me for counseil, among whõe somebeinge my frendes & aquaintance, desired me to write vnto them somelitle counseil howe to gouerne themselues therin: saiyng also that Ishould do a greate pleasure to all my frendes and contrimen, if I woulddeuise at my laisure some thĩg, whiche from tyme to tyme might remaine,wherto men might in such cases haue a recourse & present refuge atall nedes, as thẽ they had none. At whose requeste, at that tyme I wratediuerse counseiles so shortly as I could for the present necessite,whiche they bothe vsed and dyd geue abrode to many others, & furtherappoynted in my self to fulfill (for so much as laye in me) theother parte of their honest request for the time to come. The whiche thebetter to execute and brynge to passe, I spared not to go to allthose that sente for me, bothe poore, and riche, day and night. And thatnot only to do thẽ that ease that I could, & to instructe thẽ fortheir...