A Collection of Seven and Fifty approved Receipts Good against the Plague
Seven and Fifty approved Receipts
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Compilación de cincuenta y siete recetas contra la peste, impresa en Londres en 1665 —el año de la Gran Peste— «piemontese-receipts-plague · p. 4» y declarada en su portada como extracto de los cinco libros de secretos de «Dr. DON ALEXES», «for the benefit of the poorer ſort of people of theſe Nations» «piemontese-receipts-plague · p. 3».
Su interés para esta base no está en las recetas sino en el prólogo. El compilador escribe en primera persona y funda su autoridad en haber sobrevivido: «I helpt to Coffin about ſix perſons, in one family at that time, yet by Gods providence am yet alive» «piemontese-receipts-plague · p. 5». Es un testimonio de práctica, no un tratado.
12 claims · 1 source · 3 attributions
Attribution
recorded, never asserted«piemontese-receipts-plague · p. 3»
«piemontese-receipts-plague · p. 3»
«Newman — Gehennical Fire (1994) · p. 51»
The chain of the work
the processed witness, in emeraldClaims
12 entries — the work's own voice, with its locator«Taken out of the Five Books of that Renowned Dr. DON ALEXES Secrets, for the benefit of the poorer ſort of people of theſe Nations. By W. J. Gent» — la portada declara la estructura de la obra: no es un libro de Alexes, es una compilación hecha por W. J. a partir de sus cinco libros y destinada a los pobres.
«LONDON, Printed by Peter Lillicrap, for John Wingfield at the Bible and Anchor in Tower-street near Mark-lane end. 1665» — el pie de imprenta, con el año de la Gran Peste de Londres.
«I through Gods divine providence, have had at ſeveral times, great occaſion to make uſe of Medicines for the health of my own body» — el compilador se presenta en primera persona, y su credencial es haber tenido que curarse a sí mismo.
«in the year 1642, for Cuts and Shots, where then I came acquainted, and into familiarity with Maſter George Dunne Chyrurgion, Maſter Leadbeater the Apothecary, Maſter Guye, Maſter Hicks, and Maſter Nicholas Culpepper» — los prácticos con los que dice haber tratado —un cirujano, un boticario y Nicholas Culpepper—; las grafías son las del impreso, con la ſ larga que la capa de texto conserva.
«in the end of September 1663 our houſe was viſited with the Plague, one died before we knew what it was» — la peste entra en su casa.
«I lay in the ſame bedding the deceaſed dyed out of, he dyed full of the marks, I had a Boyle in my Groyne that never brake, but went away by purging and vomiting, my fellow had one that brake, yet none dyed but the fir» — y lo que declara haber hecho: dormir en la cama del muerto y sobrevivir con un bubón que nunca reventó.
«I helpt to Coffin about ſix perſons, in one family at that time, yet by Gods providence am yet alive» — el recuento de los que amortajó.
«I had a long ſickneſs from Midſomer till Chriſtmas, of that miſerable diſeaſe called the griping or plague of the Guts» — la segunda enfermedad, la que lo lleva a los libros.
«all publick means for cure, and having ſpent what means I had upon Doctors like the woman that had the bloudy Iſſue: And all gave me over for dead, I betook me to ſearch for directions in books» — y el itinerario que declara: primero gastarse lo que tenía en médicos, y solo después buscar en libros.
«providence guided me to light upon the moſt excellent and approved Works of that famous Doctor named DON ALEXES» — cómo dice haber llegado a la obra que compila.
«a man well ſkilled in the Latine Greek, Hebrew Chaldes and Arabick tongues, and of divers other Nations and Countreys, he being naturally inclined and took a ſingular pleaſure in Phyloſophy, and in the ſecrets of nature, he travelled ſeven and twenty years to gain knowledge» — el retrato que hace de Don Alexes: lenguas, filosofía, secretos de la naturaleza y veintisiete años de viaje.
«the five books were tranſlated into Engliſh by Maſter William Ward and Maſter Richard Andrews and Dedicated unto the Right honourable Francis Lord Ruſſell Earl of Bedford» — y la cadena de transmisión al inglés que declara, con sus dos traductores y su dedicatario.
About the work
1 entries — what the apparatus and scholarship say about it«They acquired a tremendous vogue in the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with such collections as the Segreti of the pseudonymous Alessio Piemontese going through myriad printings» — William Newman adjudica el seudónimo: los Segreti son «of the pseudonymous Alessio Piemontese», y sitúa su enorme circulación.