A friend to the sick: or, the honest English man's preservation. Shewing the causes, symptoms, and cures of the most occult and dangerous diseases ... With a particular discourse of the dropsie, scurvy, and yellow jaundice ... Whereunto is added, a true relation of some of the ... cures effected by the author's ... cathartique and diuretique pills ...
A seventeenth-century English medical guide by William Sermon, printed in London in 1673 for Edward Thomas, offering popular remedies for diseases such as dropsy, scurvy and jaundice to lay readers. The pictures are woodcut printers' ornaments: repeating bands of stylised flowers, rosettes and scrolls, plus a decorated initial letter with birds and foliage, a useful reference for historic borders, dense pattern repeats and letterform decoration.
