Outlines of a plan, calculated to put a stop to the progress of the malignant contagion, which rages on the shores of the Mediterranean, ... / by Richard Pearson.

Date:
1804
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Credit: Outlines of a plan, calculated to put a stop to the progress of the malignant contagion, which rages on the shores of the Mediterranean, ... / by Richard Pearson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    has not unfrequently happened in other coun- tries. Hence there is an cvidcntmcccssity for continuing, in regard to goods 01 ap- parel brought by healthy persons coming from Gibraltar, and other places in the Mediterranean, the same precautions for a great length of time after the epidemic shall have ceased there, as were thought necessary while the disorder was raging with resistless fury.* There is then, let it be repeated, no- thing in our improved mode of living, nor in our superior degree or cleanliness, nor in the spaciousness of modern-built houses, nor in the greater cleanliness and width of our streets, nor in the season of \ * Nor ought this farther caution to be omitted, that when the contagion has ceased in any place by the ap- proach of winter, it will not be safe to open a free trade, [or-communication] with it too soon ; because there are instances of the distemper being stopped by the winter cold, and yet the seeds of it not destroyed, but only kept inactive, till the warmth of the following spring has given them new life and force. Mead, pp. 97, 98.