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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    wherein the Plague has been brought into remote Countries and Cities this Way : And here, I think, may be mentioned the Cafes oi MeJJin a and of Reggio, as Proofs of it. §. 13. When the infedted Goods are opened, the pejlilential Particles are re¬ moved from their Lodgment by the Motion of the Air to which they are expofed, and are carried along with the Current of it, and enter into any human Body that is near in the Way of their Currency ; and, if there be a fufficient Quantity of 'em, that un¬ happy Perfon foon falls fick of the Plague. §. 14. Thus has the Peftilence begun in divers Places and, by the Pranfmutation of many Parts of the Blood of the firfl: fick Perfon into a peftilential Nature, Multitudes of infectious Particles are generated or pro¬ duced ; the Conveyance of which to other Perfons and Families, and from them to others, fpreads Sicknefs and Death thro' the Cities into which the righteous God fends this dreadful Diftemper. §. 15. It may be an ufeful Caution (when Goods are imported from Countries where the Plague frequently happens) for the Per¬ fons, employed in unpacking them, to have the Wind on their Backs, and the Goods before
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