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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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    Bubos, and Carbuncles, in all of them, except in thofe of the firfi Clafs, who were fo terribly feized, that they died in a few Hours, or at fartheft in a Day or two, linking under the Oppreffion, Anxiety, and Faintnefs, into which they were thrown by the firft Stroke of the Difeafe; having Mortifica¬ tions immediately produced in fome of the Vifcera, as appeared upon the Diffedlion of their Bodies (c). And this Obfervation of the French Phyficians, which agrees with what other Authors have remarked in former Plagues, fully proves, that thefe Eruptions are fo far from be¬ ing caufed folely by the greater Vi¬ olence of this Difeafe, than of o- ther Fevers, that they are only ab- fent, when the Diftemper is extra- (c) Obfervat. et Reflex, touchant la Na¬ ture, etc. de la Pefte de Marfeiiles, pag, 47. et fuiv. ordinary
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