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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S38 an hospital was estahlishc*] at tl'ie convent of the Observantin?, where the sirk were first irarisported, till the disease was pe-fcctly decided,—so minute was the attention p;>id to every object which might prevent a return of the late ravage^:. in the month of April a circumstance extremely consolatory with regard to the plague took place. Common diseases, which daring the fury of the contagion had entirely ceased, now began to re- appear, and take their ordinary course. A sort of epidemic distemper, indeed, arose, of the nature of the erisvjielas, which seemed a consequence of the plague. It is an opinion among physi- cians, that the plague, in spending itself, often flegeneratcs into some other disease, such as ma- lignant fevers, small-pox, he.. Ours seemed to degenerate into this sort of erisypelas, with ether cutaneous eruptions; none of wdiich, however, proved fatal. The state of the hospital for the plague constantly improved, louring the month of April, onfy 94 were received in ; and of those only 19 vAcre of the city, the rest belonging to the ter- ritory, whic'h was now in the state tlie city had just ])asscd,—that of experiencing frequent relapses. All this irispire'd confidence ;‘and people began to communicate fi'ecly with each other. My lord bishop, however, not judging it proper to trust too much to this free communication, tleferred the paschal communion to the feast of ascension. Thr 3

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