Tentamen medicum inaugurale, de peste / quod, annuente summo numine, ex auctoritate reverendi admodum viri, D. Georgii Baird ... pro gradu doctoris ... ; eruditorum examini subjicit Gulielmus Allan.

  • Moncreiff, William.
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[1814]
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    buerunt. In ^gypto, exempli gratia, Nilo recedente; copia coeni limosi in ripis illius lluminis deponitur aliisque locis, quibus stag- narit; magis prascipue in urbe Grand Cairo dicta, per quam mediam ingens transit cana- lis, qui, Nilo superfluente, aqua impletur, et fluvio decrescente, paulatim exsiccatur. In lianc cujuscunque generis sordes, putridas- que carnes, &c. incolse conjiciunt; adeo ut foetor inde, simul atque a coeno, genitus; vix poF-sit tolerari. Porro, urbe ipsa populo abundante; quibusdam annis, ut fertur, bis centies millia liominum liaud desideranda pestis aufert; et fere hi misere vivunt, domi- bus et seipsis foedissimis, vicis arctissimis, pavimentis destitutis, immundis, et aere bo- no non perflatis ; ipsaque urbe in planitie are- nosa ad radices montis sita, qui ventos aera purgantes arcens, ardores facit maxime suf- focantes. In this posture of things, ait Dr Mead, the Plague every year constant- ]y preys upon the inhabitants, and is only stopt, when the Nile, by overflowing, washes