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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    the afylums, or among tliofe who minifter to the Hick* or have the charge of the infected place, and fuper- intend the due execution of the laws [31]. As to thefe la ft, and all thofe who are employed about the lick, itfis neceflary that they fhould dwell feparate from the reft of the inhabitants; and that feme public edifices fhould be allotted to them, together with fome of the houfes adjacent to the infected place, if they fhould be required for their ufe; or for ft ore-houfes, or for other occafions of the in¬ habitants. The method of treatment of perfons of all ranks* in infe&ed places, whether in ficknefs or in healthy as here propoled, will be found perfectly agreeable to died of it. From thence it was communicated to the neigh¬ bouring fea-port of Workington; and, in the fummer follow- ing, to the town, of Cockermouth, where it proved fatal to two furgeons. Jt difappeared in this laft place during the winter £ and again broke out there in the fummer following, but with milder fymptoms than before. [3i] it a oes not feem probable that pefiilential contagion ever kills inftantaneoufly, as fome have fuppofed. There is reafon to conclude, that, like the variolous contagion, it mull: operate fome time on the human body before it produces the difeafe ; and that the difeafe, when fo produced,, mull run on* for fome confiderable time, before it produces that putrid Hate of the humours which renders them contagious. And it is found by experience, that infedlion may be avoided,- if the healthy are feparated from the Tick, towards the beginning of this fever. The different periods from infedlion to the fever* and from the beginning of the fever again to contagion, are pretty well marked out in the fmall-pox y fo that, on the fourth* and even fo late as the fifth day of that difeafe, in order to avoid infection, I have frequently advifed the found to be re¬ moved into houfes feparate from the fick ; and at other times*., the fick from the found j and always with fucceiT
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