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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![fent it to Two Infeded Perfons, who, by the Divine Bleffing on it, both of them recovered. He alfo |j takes notice of the great Virtue of this Herb againft the Bitings of venomous Creatures. Jt may be eaten in its entire Subftance as a Sallad, or the Conferva I or Syrup may be taken, or the Juice newly exprefs’d, which he thinks better than the Syrup or Conferva. Thus I have finifhed what I had to offer to the I Publick concerning the Plague, and the mod proper I Antidotes againft it, which I have met with in my I little Reading. I fhail only add, That after all, our principal Truft and Confidence muft be in the Good- II nefs and Mercy of Almighty God, thro’ the Merits of I our Lord and Saviour Jefus Chrift , and it greatly !] concerns all Perfons to fearch and try their Ways, I and turn unto the Lord with their whole Hearts. : Let the Means and Inflruments, or Second Caufes of this terrible Calamity be what they will *5 whether it owes its Origin to Subtenant al Steams, and the Expirations of noxious Minerals, (as Mr. Boyle : conjedures ) or to a peftiferous Aura, proceeding ij from a peculiar, and (in a fort) corruptive Alte- !i ration of the Eitro-aerial Spirit, (as Dr. Hodges thinks 5) or to prodigious Swarms of invifihle ve¬ nomous InfeBs, (as Kircher and Mr. Bradley ima¬ gine.:,) or, laftly, to an unhealthy Conftitution oi the Seafont and Diforder in the Air, occafioned by exceffive Heat and Moiflure, (as Galen taught of old) which evil Conftitution is heightned and ren- | dred more malignant by the Stinks of fhgnating Waters, by putrid Exhalations from the Earth, and from dead Gar cafes lying unburied, which fill the Air with contagious Particles, and fo being fuck'd in with the Breath taint in their Palfage the falival Juices, which being {wallowed down into •.5 ° D 2 the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30774135_0027.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
