Volume 1

Observations on the nature and cure of hospital and jayl-fevers. In a letter to Doctor Mead / [Sir John Pringle].

  • John Pringle
Date:
1750
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Credit: Observations on the nature and cure of hospital and jayl-fevers. In a letter to Doctor Mead / [Sir John Pringle]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to fee what analogy there is in the cure. But as handling thefe points in a proper manner d would be inconfiftent with our prefent defign, | I fhall not enter upon them now; and fhall 1 conclude with one remark, that altho’ I have > frequently known fevers of a malignant kind pafs from the military hofpitals to the towns J and villages where they were, yet it has al¬ ways been with a leffer degree of violence, the contagious matter being weakened, as YOU, Sir, have obferved of the plague, by its difperiion. And that tho’ I have feen this ! diftemper, perhaps, in its word: ftate, when M it has had many fymptoms of a peftilential 1 appearance, yet, as YOU juftly remark, there is flill a fpecifick difference; and that fl therefore we may have the fatisfadtion to re-^ ] ; fledt, that the true plague, with its fabtile 1 and diffufive virulence, can never be firft produced in thefe climates. I am, Sir, with 9 the greateft refpedt, Sec* London, May 24. 1750.