Volume 172102
Some observations concerning the plague: with ... reference to the ... discourse of ... Dr. Mead, concerning pestilential contagion ... / By a Well-wisher to the publick.
- Date:
- 1721
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Some observations concerning the plague: with ... reference to the ... discourse of ... Dr. Mead, concerning pestilential contagion ... / By a Well-wisher to the publick. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ook Ea. . | ing’them in the Sea or in fome deep Water, where it can be conveniently done, to prevent digging up) to be much the more e/zgzb/e, and the ‘fafett as well’ as Jlealt oftenfive* mainer of deftroying them ; for-I have a vehement fuf-. picion that by the durnimg of Infected Cloaths and the like, the Venomous Effluvia or pozfo- nous particles adhering to them may be car- ried along with the Svoak, and the fatal Misuse or. fomes being Volatilized by the Fire may fill all the Circumambient 4/7, and initead of reftraining may isreatly propagate the Contagion. ‘This I very well ‘remember, that in fome parts of England it is a ge- nerally received Opzuion that the burning of Cloaths taken from a Perion that dies of a very Malignant Small Pox, greatly tends to {pread the Di/femper ; and wicked Nur/fes, who defire to make work for ‘themlelves,are faid to practifethis very Method to ac-. ;complifh their barbarous Defigns ; and when] lived — ‘in the County of Suffolk, 1 was informed that when ‘that Difeafé was in the Town of [pfwich (about 25 Of 30 Yeats ago) a certain barbarous Nurfe did early in a Morning, (that fhe might not be known ) atthe head of one ofthe principal Streets, ‘put fire to an heap of O/d Rags and Bed Cloaths ithat had belonged to fome poor People who Died- lof that ‘Di/femper, and the Smoak driving along ithe Street, feveral that pafled by betimes com- plained of a very offenfive fmell, and thenext News was that almoft all that hadnot formerly gonethro’ Ithat Difea/e in that whole Street, were feized with litinavery fewdays. Andif this Methodof Barn- ug be fo pernicious in the Cafe of the Small Pox, a oh 4 ° j ; ‘ Rega tt SE ‘ eo : ‘ ie a igi # ‘Wdajus) that it may prove ftill more fatal in the -](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31926022_0002_0022.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
