Outlines of a plan, calculated to put a stop to the progress of the malignant contagion, which rages on the shores of the Mediterranean, if ... it should ... make its way into this country / [Richard Pearson].
- Richard Pearson
- Date:
- 1804
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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, if ... it should ... make its way into this country / [Richard Pearson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![to the system of separation^ fumigation, &c, strict orders being at the same time given, to burn all the bedding and clothes that had been used by the sick j and the house or houses in which such a disorder should oc^ cur should be thoroughly fumigated, white¬ washed, and cleansed. These precautions are the more necessary, inasmuch as the Plague, in some of its most fatal forms, and especially on its first breaking out, is not #•* marked by its characteristic eruptions.* ceeds the proportion of recoveries. At the beginning and during the height of a pestilential epidemic, it has often happened that more than two-thirds of the in¬ fected have perished. A disorder is rapid in its course, if it terminates fatally before the fifth day. In the worst forms of the Plague and Yellow Fever, many of the infected die on or before the third day. A disorder is contagious when it spreads in the manner above- mentioned. * Hence the first cases of the contagion at Mar¬ seilles were denied to be the Plague, Mead, p. 9. The same thing happened at Moscow, as De Mertens has stated. 1 hat the Plague, (says another author] under a form of all others the most destructive, exists without its characteristic eruptions, or other external marks, ieckoned pestilential, can admit of no doubt; and it is](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30795114_0010.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
