Volume 1

The natural history of Aleppo. Containing a description of the city, and the principal natural productions in its neighbourhood. Together with an account of the climate, inhabitants, and diseases; particularly of the plague / By Alex. Russell, M. D.

  • Alexander Russell
Date:
1794
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The natural history of Aleppo. Containing a description of the city, and the principal natural productions in its neighbourhood. Together with an account of the climate, inhabitants, and diseases; particularly of the plague / By Alex. Russell, M. D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    V1 Poa aE A eC ee. that time he meditated a New Edition, which he conceived might be introduced with confiderable improvement, in point of arrangement, as well as by additions to fuch parts as ap- peared to be defedtive. In matters of Faét, little occurred for correG@ion; but he difcovered in feveral inftances, that he was liable to the impu- tation of being obfcure by endeavouring to be concife; or that by fuppofing his Reader already informed of matters familiar to himfelf, he had fometimes omitted circumftances in his de- {criptions, which perfpicuity required to be inferted. He found reafon alfo to regret the reftraint he had impofed upon himfelf, in his account of the Oriental cuftoms, by con- fidering it as chiefly fubfervient to the medical part of his Work. He knew that the Polity and Manners of the Turks had been amply defcribed by feveral refpectable Writers; but he had frequent occafion to remark in converfation, that many domeftic minutia, lying lefs in the way of Travellers, had either efcaped notice altogether, or been erroneoufly reprefent- - ed: while their utility, from their connexion with. Scriptural Hiftory, rendered them interefting to the Curious. It being expedient in the profecution of his plan, to maintain Syria, he communicated his intentions to the prefent Editor, who had lived with him feveral years at Aleppo, and who in 1753, fucceeded him as Phyfician to the Britifh Factory. By the earlieft opportunity after the publication of his Book, he tranfmitted a copy to Aleppo, accompanied with a requeft to the following purpofe, ‘* That the whole fhould be critic_ “ ally
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