Some observations concerning the plague. Occasion'd by, and with some reference to, the late ingenious discourse of the learned Dr. Mead, 'Concerning pestilential contagion, and the methods to prevent it.' / By a well-wisher to the publick.
- Date:
- 1721
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Some observations concerning the plague. Occasion'd by, and with some reference to, the late ingenious discourse of the learned Dr. Mead, 'Concerning pestilential contagion, and the methods to prevent it.' / By a well-wisher to the publick. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![: of the Plague: But this! humbly fufaroit to the Confix deration of the Learned in Philofophy and Phyfick. jj As for proper ProphylaBkks or Preservatives tfrom the Plague, the DoBor has not offer’d modi ; upon this Head, and feems to defpair of the Difco- very of any Specifick of Virtue fuflicient to fortify I [Nature againft the A {faults of fuch a malignant Dif \\eafe. After the Mention of fame general and very : iufeful Rules to be obferv’d by way of Prevention, land juft hinting at a few Particulars, efpecialiy the llJfe of Wine Vinegar in (mail Quantities, [ which, [with his Conferva me Domine, is faid to have been khe Antidote of the famous Sylvius] he does in the 35th Page, recommend leaving the infected Place as the furefl Prefervative, which is the fame with the Counfel that Rama&zini gives in his late Dilfertation concerning the Plague at Vienna, about Seven Years ago. Page 469 of his Works \ where he 1 thus expreffes himfelf: Ut quod fentio proper am, mud unicurn perplacet, quod vulgb de tribus com~ pofitim appellatur, i. e. de celeri fugd d toco in- feBo, de profeBione ad longinquas regiones, ae tarda reverfione *5 quo remedii genere fopientiores quoque Medici uti confuevere• The Sum of which is. That, to fpeak his Mind freely, he thinks the. Method of Prevention prefcribed by the old Adage, Mox, longe, tarda, cede, recede, redi, to be the heft, i. e. to get away fbon, to go away far, and to return back ilowly ^ which he fays is a Remedy that the wifeft Phyficians. themfelves are wont to make ufe of upon this Occafion, But how.proper Advice foever this may be to thofe who are in fudi Circumfiances, as render them capable of following it; yet there are, alas, great Numbers to whom this will feem an hard Saying, as being by them Isxy pra&icahlc. The lower Sort of People, poor Me- q 2 chamks](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30774135_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
