An essay on the different causes, of pestilential diseases, and how they become contagious. With remarks upon the infection now in France / By John Quincy, M.D.

  • Quincy, John, -1722.
Date:
1721
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Credit: An essay on the different causes, of pestilential diseases, and how they become contagious. With remarks upon the infection now in France / By John Quincy, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ielufory Foundations) and requires the feverity of Demonjlration from Facts, and the known Properties of Matter; and more ejpecially does the Neceffities we are now under of Arming againjl the mofl powerful Enemy, call for Af~ finances of a more certain Nature; yet either from the wantonneffes of a light Pm agin at ion,and a falfe Fhilofophy ; or from a Vanity to be taken Notice of, the Pablick has upon this fad Occafon been amufed with the Figments and Conceits of Naturahfls, who from the Cafual- ties and Diflemperatures incident to Plants end other inanimate Productions of Nature, have drawn Conclufions to jupport very wild ■ Conjectures concerning a like Procedure in the Dfsafes peculiar to Mankind. 9 the