An historical account of the plague, and other pestilential distempers which have appear'd in Europe ... from the birth of Christ to the presnt time. To which is added, an account of the cholera morbus / [R. Goodwin].

  • Goodwin, R
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[1832]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An historical account of the plague, and other pestilential distempers which have appear'd in Europe ... from the birth of Christ to the presnt time. To which is added, an account of the cholera morbus / [R. Goodwin]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * PREFACE. — Ir appears scarcely necessary for the Editor of the following pages, to state at any great length, the reasons which have in- duced him to present this little work before the public. So universal has been the anxious concern of all ranks and classes to obtain definite, and as far as possible, satis- factory information, relative to the nature and origin of the fatal epidemic disease, now raging in ourland, thatevery attempt to direct the serious attention of mankind to this awful scourge, must be regarded as neither super- fluous nor ill-timed. The arm of the Al- mighty is so evidently laid bare before us, in this widely wasting malady, that we are solemnly called upon to abstract our atten- tion from all secondary causes, and to view with reverential awe and deep submission, the affliction of the divine displeasure, in this visitation. The skill of man appears to be so utterly baffled, by the rapid and almost instantaneous fatality of this angel of destruc- tion ; the wisdom of man is so entirely set at naught, by the eccentricity and apparent in-