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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$The following Remarks on the Plagite are extracted from Travels in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt, Si/ria, &“c, ly ]\lo?is. Olivier, Member of the National Institute at Paris» In ordinary times, at Constantinople, and in the Levant, the plague does not rage with anv violence ; few individuals are attacked together, and the disease is slight, so that it does not in general prove mortal. If in any town v\ here it is very common, it has totally subsided for a considerable time, then when it breaks out again, it appears with all its accustomed malignity, and sweeps away great numbers. In general, however, it is much Jike what the small-pax is in European nations—the country is never wholly free from it, 3'et it is onlv occasionally that it breaks out with violence, and produces a great mortality. It would be the same case in Europe, if so many precautions were not used to keep it out of that quarter of the world : and there is no doubt that if similar precautions were taken in those countries where it is now as it were endemial, it would be as little prevalent among them as among us. Particular towns are more or less subject to the plague, accordii-rg to the degree of their commerce and external relations ; and thus it is more constantlv at Constanti- iiople than in any other part of the Ottoman empire, as her external communications are more extensive and more constant. Smyrna is esteemed another principal nursery of the plague, and from her very great trade she frequently the means of spreading it. In Persia, it is scarcely ever known, though a considerable trade$

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