The plague no contagious disease; or, The infection of the plague seldom, if ever, communicated by touching of persons infected, or, of goods broughts from infected places, but the productive cause of the plague a fault of the air ... With some hints for the prevention and cure of the plague / [Anon].

  • Richard Manningham
Date:
1744
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Credit: The plague no contagious disease; or, The infection of the plague seldom, if ever, communicated by touching of persons infected, or, of goods broughts from infected places, but the productive cause of the plague a fault of the air ... With some hints for the prevention and cure of the plague / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. TH E very great Apprehenfions and Fears which poffefs our Nation on Account of the prefentPlague raging in foreign Parts, we prefume make it not unfeafonable, at this Time, to lay be¬ fore the Public the Matters of Faff concern¬ ing the Infedtion of the Plague and its fpread- ing y collefted from the beft Records of Plagues, and efpecially from the late authe?i- tic Journal of the Plague of Marfeilles ; from whence we fhew that the Plague is feldom, if ever, tranfplanted from foreign Countries, or from the Perfon of one Man into that of another; fo that the People, by duly con- fidering thcfe Fa£ls> may be enabled to judge for themfelves, whether there is really fuffi- cient Foundation for that great Fear which feems fo univerfally to polTefs them, when¬ ever they hear of the Plague in any diftant Country. YET, as the Plague,that very terrible Dif- eafe, may be theProduft of every Country, and therefore it may be our great Unhappinefs, to be vifited with that Calamity, we thought it not improper at the fame Time to give A 2 fome /
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