An account of the plague which raged at Moscow, in 1771 / By Charles de Mertens ... Translated from the French, with notes [by R. Pearson].

  • Mertens, Charles de, 1737-1788.
Date:
1799
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Credit: An account of the plague which raged at Moscow, in 1771 / By Charles de Mertens ... Translated from the French, with notes [by R. Pearson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    one who is acquainted with the nature of that contagion can deny the poffibility of its importation from America into this country, either now or hereafter, by infeded perfons or infeded merchandife. On the other hand, are we not threatened with a fimilar danger from the Eaft r In executing the hoftile operations which are going forwards in the Mediterranean, it feems fcarcely poffible for our fleets and armies to keep clear of con¬ tagion. No nation was ever long engaged in a war with the Turks, without taking the plague. In this refped they are as much to be dreaded by their friends as their foes. If, in the prefent conteft, Italy, and France, and England (hall efcape this fcourge; it will form an exception to paft events, which all Europe muft devoutly pray for. Under thefe circumftances the Tranflator \ thought it would be ufeful to call the atten¬ tion of the praditioners in medicine of this country, to the fubjed of peftilential conta¬ gion, by publifhing the following Account of the Plague at Mofcow in the year 1771. A 2 Befides