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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under his friend at Avignon, whence be removed, after a time, to the celebrated university of Mont-^ pellier. - He did not, however, remain there long, family affairs requiring his presence at Martigues. To the latter place, therefore, he removed, but did not discontinue the studies to which he had now most irrevocably attached himself. Some time after he went to Lvons, where he passed several months in attending the hospitals, and then returned again to Martigues, wdth the intention of exer- cising his profession there. But this small towm being afeady overstocked with physicians, no less than six being established in it, Mons. Bertrand soon found that he had no chance (d dcrivins: any considearble advantage from his talents in such a situation, and he at length determined to remove to Marseilles. This he accordingly did in the year 1707. In spite of a cabal which was formed to prevent it, he was received into the college of physicians in (hat city, and began to exercise bis profession with a degree of re])utation and success which never forsook him to the time of his death.

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