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

  • William Brownrigg
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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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    town of Cambridge, the colleges remained entirely free, by being (hut up from all communication with fuch as might be fufpefted of giving them the difeafe [25]. In the plague at Rome, in the years 1656 and 1657, the monafteries and nunneries, for the mo ft part, defended themfeives from infection by the fame means: whereas, at Naples, where the plague was a little before, thefe religious houfes, from their negledt herein, did not efcape fo well. Even the prifons at Rome, though clofe and noifome, were free from this infection. So that there remains no doubt, that this faiutary practice of feclufion, if care¬ fully obferved, will every where be found effectual in preventing the communication of contagion, and in preferving the families fo fhut up from the diftemper. In order therefore to prevent this dreaded difeafe from being propagated to thofe who remain free from it, in places fo inclofed, it feems neceffary that, agree¬ able to the method fo long and fuccefsfully pracftfed in the Eaft, every houfe in fuch inclofed places, not vifited with the difeafe, fhould immediately be fhut up, fo as that all communication may be cut off, between the houfes that remain free from contagion, and thofe that are infedted therewith. All the prefervative methods againft the diftemper that have hitherto been put in pradiice, are founded on a feparation of the infedled from the found, [25] A plan which refledts great honour on the chief mem¬ bers of the learned body by whom it was concerted ; and, more efpecially on the Vice-Chancellor of that univerfity, by whom, agreeable to our laws, it mud have been carried into execution. That
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