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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![vecors ac arrogans Pbilofophantium turba nugatur, plane ignoramus. Words fo fevere and fo discoura¬ ging to any Enquiries of this Kind, that I (hall chufe to leave them as I find them* 1 muft here indeed freely own, that I am much nleafed with the Piety and Ingenuity of the learned and diligent Diemerbroeck, who after a large Reci¬ tal and Examination of the feveral Hypothefes that had been advanced before his Time concerning the Origin of the Plague, and after weighing the Ar¬ guments and Reafons brought by their refpe- ftive Patrons for the Support of them, declares himfelf wholly dilfatisfied with them all, in the 8th Chapter of his firft Book, and the Annotations thereon: and after all, he has recourfe to the to 3-etov of the great Hippocrates, (the Father and Prince of Phyftcians) and endeavours to make it appear, that fomethiog fupernatural or preternatural is to be underftood thereby , and that That ancient Sage (tho' guided only by the Light of natural Reafon) intended to fignify by that lerm, fome- what fent down from angry Heaven, as a juft Punifhmetit for the Wickednefs of Men. But it may not be improper to add fomething un¬ der this Head from that great Chriflian Philofopher, and (while he lived ) iiluftrious Ornament of the Royal Society, Mr. Boyle, never to be _ mentioned without a Preface of Honour. This Curious and Critical, but Sober and Mode]} Enquirer into the Powers of Nature, and Operations of Second Caufes, in his Occafional Difquifition concerning the Original of the Plague, wifely chufes the middle Way, between thofe who recur wholly to fupernatural Caufes, and thofe who impute all to natural Ones, in their Accounts hereof: He obterves.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30774135_0006.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
