Volume 1

A treatise on the plague and pestilential fevers : with some useful hints, for the better preservation and cure. Together with some observations, on the pestilential fever now raging among the horned cattle.

Date:
1751
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the plague and pestilential fevers : with some useful hints, for the better preservation and cure. Together with some observations, on the pestilential fever now raging among the horned cattle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Jpreads or propagates any Thing, always ac-^ companies and is adive in propagating. Hip¬ pocrates entitles this Sedion of his Epidem. the Conjiitution of Air that caufes the Plague^ and relates in it, the kind of Weather that precedeSy and the Plague or Fevers th^t follow. Hot 2ind moiji Air then, and foutherly Winds are Caufes; and Fevers or Plagues, Effects 'of thefe Caufes. But this is not the only Con- ftitution, for we find alfo by Experience, that hard fnofy Weather, and hot and dry Weather, are Conflitutions that likewife pre¬ cede Plagues 5 and are, at leaft, their ante- cedent Caufe: and the Conftitution of hard Frojt, breeding a Plague, is as obvious as any other Conftitution whatever. Befides the Plagues in Stockholm, Hantzick and Ham¬ burgh, our laft great Plague of London began in December 1664, as Dr. Hodges attefts. And fometimes hot Weather is found to dimi¬ ni f? the Plague, as we fee by the Account from France, viz. the Paris Article in the London Gazette for July 21,* which fays: That ‘ the Court has received a Letter *’ from the Mai'quis de Pons, who commands ‘ Toulon, with Advice, that the hot Wea- ■ * ther had much diminiflied the Plague in ‘ that City/ In Egypt, and in all the Piirkip Domini¬ ons, the Plague begins commonly in Febru¬ ary, a cool Seafon ; and ends almoft to a Day, on the 24th of fdy, their hotteft • Seafon. There