The travels and adventures of Edward Brown ... Containing his observations on France and Italy: his voyage to the Levant; his account of the isle of Malta; his remarks in journies thro' the Lower and Upper Egypt; together with a brief description of the Abyssinian Empire / [John Campbell].
- John Campbell
- Date:
- 1739
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The travels and adventures of Edward Brown ... Containing his observations on France and Italy: his voyage to the Levant; his account of the isle of Malta; his remarks in journies thro' the Lower and Upper Egypt; together with a brief description of the Abyssinian Empire / [John Campbell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ 4°3 ] from the fame fort of Difeafes in Europe ; and becaufe I am willing to fpeak diffufely of the Plague, which I have faid, conftantly vifits Egypt, and pf which, tho* our Authors fpeak much, yet I think little hath hither¬ to been faid accurately about it. This grievous and deftrudtive Malady, tho’ it be much ftrengthened and encreafed by the Heat of the Air in Egypt, is feldom or never bred there ; fo that tho’ it may be filled endemial and epidemic in Egypt, yet it cannot be called indigenous, finee it is certainly derived either from Greece or Syria,on the one Side,or from Barb ary or Libya on the other ; and thefe Plagues are very different. The Plague when it comes from Greece feizes many, but its Symptoms are mild, and there are but a few to whom it proves mortal ; the Plague from Syria is more fatal, for tho’ few are feized thereby, yet more die than in the former Cafe; but when the Plague comes from Barbary, or Libya, it lays all Cairo wade, preying on all Degrees of People with grievous and prodigious Symptoms,which moftly terminate in Death, fo that few who are ftruck therewith, preferve either Hope or Rea- fon. When the Plague comes early in the Year, that is in the Months of September or October, it does mod Mifchief, and continues longeft; but when it is late in the Seafon before it vifits Cairo, it does not fpread fo excefilvely, or do fo much Mifchief. But whenever it comes, or of whatfoever fort it be, the riling of the Nile delivers the People at once, not only from the Difeafe, but from all Apprehenfions of it. Seven Months therefore is the Circle of its Reign, in which if we may believe what the Inhabitants of Cairo unanimouily allert, it hath fometimes carried off half a Million. of j - D d 2 Perfonsj](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30505185_0423.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
