Letters relating to the plague, and other contagious distempers / [Theophilus Lobb].

  • Theophilus Lobb
Date:
1745
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Credit: Letters relating to the plague, and other contagious distempers / [Theophilus Lobb]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Manner fomewhat fimilar to the Dilution of fmall Streams of muddy Water, upon their being carried into the Ocean. Obferv. 7. That peftilential Particles, whatever they be, are different from the Particles naturally conftituent of that Fluid we call Air. Obferv. 8. That when peftilential Parti¬ cles, emitted from any infedted Matter, are carried upwards in the Air of the Atmo- fphere (that immenfe Mafs of Fluid, efpe- cially, if there happens any Wind to agitate the Air, without driving the Smoke of Chimnies downwards) there is Reafon to think they foon become fo fubdivided, and diluted with the Air, as to lofe their in- fedting Quality, or Power of producing Sicknefs : Becaufe, other wife, the peftilen¬ tial Infedtion, and the Plague, its Effedt, mu ft fprcad much quicker, and more ex¬ tern! vely thro’ infedted Cities, and toadja- ’ cent Villages and Towns, and thro’ whole Countries, than it has been commonly known to do, Obferv. 9, That, therefore, the Danger of being infedted with the Plague very much depends on the Quantity of the in- fedtine
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