Outlines of a plan calculated to put a stop to the progress of the malignant contagion, which rages on the shores of the Mediterranean, if, notwithstanding every precaution to the contrary, it should unfortunately make its way into this country / by Richard Pearson, M.D.

  • Pearson, Richard
Date:
1804
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Credit: Outlines of a plan calculated to put a stop to the progress of the malignant contagion, which rages on the shores of the Mediterranean, if, notwithstanding every precaution to the contrary, it should unfortunately make its way into this country / by Richard Pearson, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    - £6 vived j (Chenot de Peste, p. 33) but of the whole number infected at Vienna, from the beginning to the end of the epidemic, the proportion between the recoveries and deaths, was one to nine, (Id. p. 38.) In the plague which raged at Cronstadt, in Transylvania, in 1755 and 1756, and of which the author last quoted has given an accurate and interesting narrative, the ave- rage proportion of deaths was two-thirds. (Id. p. 2].^j Although the proportions were widely different in different places ; as appears from the following table*