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
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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, if ... it should ... make its way into this country / [Richard Pearson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ADDITIONS. To the example afforded by the city of Ferrara, (quoted at p. 12.) may be added 4 the following, * All travellers and goods coming into the Russian territory, from the adjoining parts of Turkey, are put under a strict Qua¬ rantine ; a wise regulation, made per¬ petual under the reign of the Empress Catherine. To this circumstance is to be attributed the exemption from the Plague, which many parts of Russia, bordering upon the Ottoman dominions, • have of late years enjoyed. Kiovv or Kiof is the only exception to the contrary. But the last time the contagion found its way into
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