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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![chanich and Tradefmen that have nothing to live upon, but the Profit of their mean Employments, muft be forced to flick by the Stuff' • they have no Country Seats to repair to, and few of them have any fuch Friend as will be free to receive them in¬ to their Houfes in the adjacent Villages. If there¬ fore any thing could be found out that would, if not always, (which indeed is not to be expe&ed) yet pretty often prove a Defenfatiue againft this dread¬ ful Enemy, it would certainly be a great and molt acceptable Service to Mankind to acquaint theWorld therewith. But as to this, I (being no Ehyfician my felf) have little to offer, but what has occafio- nally occurred to me in perufing fome of the befl Medical Books, written by Authors of the created Name and Note, who have themfelves been emi¬ nent Practitioners, and particularly have had Cou¬ rage enough to vifit the Sick in Places where the Plague has raged with the greateft Violence. A- mong thefe, Diemerbroeck and Hodges are the chief in the Clafs of Modern Writers the former being Phyfcian at Himeguen during the fevere Peflilence that made fuch fearful Havock there in the Year i6]6 j and the latter at London in 1665, wheni near an Hundred thoufand Perfons were cut off by this flagellum Dei. As to Diemerbroeck, that: great Judge Mr. Boyle fays, that he prefers his: book of the Plague to any that he had ever read of that Difeafe, P. 81. of his Treatife of the Air, al¬ ready mentioned •, and indeed he feems to have com-’ municated his Obfervations to theWorld with a greati deal of ingenuous Plainnefs and Fidelity. It would: take up too much rcom to tranferibe the half of thofe Receipts, which hepropofes from himfelf and others by way of Prevention, in hisTreatife of this Diftem- per-j](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30774135_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
