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].

  • Manningham, Richard, Sir, 1690-1759.
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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    / [ 1 ] THE PLAGUE o AS Contagion and InfeClion, which bear very different Senfes, have been by the Moderns taken for fynonimous Words ; and as the Plague is gene- rally agreed to be infectious, and fome think it contagious, we fhall fhew what is meant by the Infection of the Plague, and at the fame Time prove from Fa£ts, that the Plague is not a contagious Difeafe. HIPPOCRATES treating of the Genefs of Fevers, fays, there are two Kinds of Fe¬ vers, one that is common to every Perfon, and is called the Plague ; but the other happens on Ac¬ count of the ill Diet of a Perfon, and of both thefe the Air is a Caufe. HIPPOCRATES obferves alfo in his Epi¬ demics, the Conjlitution of the Air which pro¬ ceeded Fevers and the Plague, to be great Heats attended with much Rain and foutherly Winds; and Experience confirms, that this is not the only Conftitution that breeds the Plague* for hard frojly Weather* and hot and dry Weather*