A brief history of epidemic and pestilential diseases: with the principal phenomena of the physical world, which precede and accompany them, and observations deduced from the facts stated ; in two volumes (Volume 2).
- Noah Webster
- Date:
- 1799
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A brief history of epidemic and pestilential diseases: with the principal phenomena of the physical world, which precede and accompany them, and observations deduced from the facts stated ; in two volumes (Volume 2). Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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![SECTION XII. Of the Infliienzay or Epidemic Catarrh. XX S the catarrh appears to be the difcafe which is moft clofe* ly connefled with pertilence, and the leaft dependent on local caufes or the fenfible qualities of the air, I have collected all the well-defined inftances of this epidemic which have occurred to my refearches, and arranged them in chronological order ; pla- cing againft the year the moft remarkable phyfical occurrences, and mentioning thofe which fell within the years next preceding and following : A. D. CATARRH EPIDEMIC IN 1174, the year before an eruption of Etna, and followed by great mortality. [|Chafm in the accounts of this difeafe.] 1510, the fame year with an eruption in Iceland, and following great earthquakes. Humid air—a comet appeared the next year. [Chafm.] 1551, the year after an eruption of Etna, and a comet. Seafon wet. 1557, the year afterzix eruption of Etna. Seafonmoftly wet; but in fome countries dry ; a comet the fame year. [Chaf.] 1580, the year after an eruption of Etna. Cool dry north wmd —A comet. 1587, the/am^ year with an eruption in Iceland—and after t^ comet. ^59^' ^/^^^ earthquakes in 1590, and a comet. 1597, the year after earthquakes and a hard winter ; rainy fea- fon, and a comet the fame year. 1602, the year after earthquakes, volcano and fevere winter. Cold and wet feafon. ^](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21163212_0038.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
