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Learned phisition

An elusive early modern medical writer, remembered mainly through plague advice books printed in the late 1500s. The surviving works offer a vivid glimpse of how household medicine and public fear shaped responses to epidemic disease.

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Good Councell against the plague Shewing sundry present preseruatiues for the same, by wholsome fumes, drinks, vomits, and other inward receits: as also, the perfect cure (by implaysture) of any that are therewith infected. Now necessary to be obserued of euery housholder, to auoyde the infection, lately begun in some places of this cittie.

Good Councell against the plague Shewing sundry present preseruatiues for the same, by wholsome fumes, drinks, vomits, and other inward receits: as also, the perfect cure (by implaysture) of any that are therewith infected. Now necessary to be obserued of euery housholder, to auoyde the infection, lately begun in some places of this cittie.

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About the author

Very little can be confirmed about this author as a person. "Learned phisition" appears to be the name attached to several early printed medical works, and modern library and catalog records treat it more like an attributed or anonymous author label than a clearly identified individual.

The best-known surviving works linked to this name are plague manuals, including Good Councell against the Plague and Present Remedies against the Plague. These books focus on practical prevention and treatment advice for householders, showing the kind of everyday medical guidance that circulated during outbreaks in early modern England.

Because no reliable biographical record was found for a real named individual behind the label, it is safest to read "Learned phisition" as a historical attribution rather than a fully documented author. That mystery is part of the interest: the works survive, even if the person behind the name remains uncertain.