A historical relation of the plague at Marseilles in the year 1720 containing a circumstantial account of the rise and progress of the calamity, and the ravages it occasioned; with many curious and interesting particulars relative to that period / Translated from the French manuscript of Mons. Bertrand, physician at Marseilles who attended during the whole time of the malady, by Anne Plumptre, with an introduction and a variety of notes. By the translator.

Jean-Baptiste Bertrand

Date:: 1805

Credit: A historical relation of the plague at Marseilles in the year 1720 containing a circumstantial account of the rise and progress of the calamity, and the ravages it occasioned; with many curious and interesting particulars relative to that period / Translated from the French manuscript of Mons. Bertrand, physician at Marseilles who attended during the whole time of the malady, by Anne Plumptre, with an introduction and a variety of notes. By the translator. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$tive, like the present, of all they have to dread from a similar visitation, is the most emphatic manner in which they can be addressed. So strong is the impression still remaining at M arscilles of the sufferings experienced at this ])criod, that notwithstandijig the length of time which has since elapsed, so that no eye-witnesses of them remain alive, and the calamities deplored are known only by tradition;—notwithstanding the scenes of horror recently exhibited during the time of the Revolution ; and, perhaps, in no city, after Paris and Lyons, were revolutionary horrors carried to a greater extent; and it might, therefore, be reasonably supposed they would have effaced all impressions of any prior catastrophe;—not- \withstanding these considerations, yet it is a facL that the idea of the ravages and desolation made by the plague is even now as strongly impressed on people’s minds as if the calamity had happened but yesterday. These scenes are even recalled with not less horror than those of the Revolution itself; nay, the one period is often brought into comparison with the other—circumstances from the one arc often cited as illustrations of the$

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