Answer:The excerpt discusses two different views against the disease in Elizabethan times. Simon Forman found a way to fight the disease although it is not a scientific one. Nicholas Bownde, the clerk, however, proposed just a way - not any cure or medicine - to fight the disease which consists of faith in God. The correct answer is the last option - While doctors like Simon Forman tried to help, others such as Nicholas Bownd relied on their faith in God.
