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A discourse on the plague / By Richard Mead.

  • Richard Mead
Date:
1744
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A discourse on the plague / By Richard Mead. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ftempers diftindt in Specie from all others, on account of certain Symp¬ toms peculiar to them; fo, for the fame reafon, it ought to be grant¬ ed, that the Plague no lefs differs in Kind from ordinary Fevers: For there are a Set of diftinguifhing Symptoms as effential to the PeJU- lence, as the refpective Eruptions are to the Small-Pox or Meafles j which are indeed (as I have men¬ tioned in the Preface) each of them Plagues of a particular kind. As the Small-Pox difcharges it- felf by Pujlules raifed in the Skin ; fo in the Plague the noxious Hu¬ mour is thrown out either by Tu¬ mors in the Glands, as by a Paro- tis, Buboy and the like; or by Car¬ buncles thruft out upon any part of the Body. And thefe Eruptions are fo fpecific Marks of this Diftem- per, that one or other of them is never
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