Considerations on the means of preventing the communication of pestilential contagion, and of eradicating it in infected places / [William Brownrigg].

  • William Brownrigg
Date:
1771
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Credit: Considerations on the means of preventing the communication of pestilential contagion, and of eradicating it in infected places / [William Brownrigg]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    each year. He further obferves, that in the months of July and Auguft, in each year (when the burials were from 200 to 300 every day) the noife of men finging before the corps, in the day time, and the fhrieks of women for the dead, both day and night, were feldom out of his ears; and that, although after the cuftom of the Eaft, they conftantly lay during thofe months, and all the hot fealon of the year, in the open air, on the houfe-top; and that in each year the plague broke out in the two houfes ad¬ joining to that in which the Britifh conful lived; and a Francifcan friar died of the difeafe in one of thofe houfes, after two days illnefs, whole bed was only fix yards diftant from that of Mr. Dawes (both of their beds being placed near a wall eight feet high, by which the terrafies of the two houfes were feparated;) and although (as before obferved) feve- ral of the Britifh merchants were fo hardy as to con- verfe abroad, after the violence of the difeafe was abated; yet the Conful, and all other Britifh fubjeds, efcaped infection in their houfes; and only four or five Europeans of other nations died of the plague, in each year. From all which fads, fo well attefted* we may deduce thefe important conclufions: Firft, that peftilential contagion is not ufually conveyed through the air to any confiderable diftance, fo as to produce infedion; but, where infedion is thereby produced, it is commonly received by im¬ mediate contad with perfons or goods, wherein it refides; or in morbid effluvia emitted into clofe rooms, or other places that are near £0 the perfons or goods therewith infeded. Secondly,
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