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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![= i6io the year after an eruption of Etna, a comet and fevere winter. Seafon very hot and dry. [Chafm.] 1647, Firft catarrh mentioned in American annals. The fame year with violent earthquakes in South-America. A comet. 1650, In Europe the fame year, with an eruption of Etna and earthquakes. 1655, in America, fame year with violent earthquakes in South- America, and eruption of Vefuvius. 1658, in Europe, after a fevere winter ; fummer cool. 1675, in Europe, nvh'tle Etna was in a ftate of explofion ; mild winter. 1679, 80, in Europe, during or juft after the eruption of Etna; wet feafon and a comet. 1688, in Earope,/fl»ze year with an eruption of Vefuvius, after a fevere winter and earthquakes ; this began in a hot fum- mer. 1693, in Europe, fame year with an eruption in Icelaad, and great earthquakes ; cool feafon. ' i6f 7, 8, in America, after a great earthquake in Peru ; a co- met the fame year, and fevere winter. 1699, in Europe, in fpring ; great earthquakes the fame year, and a comet. 1708, 9, in Europe, in a fevere winter, after a comet and volcano. 1712, in Europe, the fame year with an eruption of Vefuvius and a comet ; wet feafon. J717, in Europe, the year of a comet, eruption of Vefuvius, and a fevere winter. 1729, 30, in Europe, the fame year with an eruption in Iceland and Vefuvius ; dry fummer ; a comet. 1733, univerfal, after a comet, a fevere winter and great earth- quakes. 1737, in Europe and America ; an eruption of Vefuvius, great earthquakes and a comet. C1743, in Europe, violent earthquakes. ^1744, a comet ; earthquakes.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21163212_0039.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
