A discourse upon the plague, with a preparatory account of malignant fevers. In two parts. The first, containing, an explication of the nature of those diseases. The second, the method of cure ... / [Sir Richard Blackmore].

  • Richard Blackmore
Date:
1721
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Credit: A discourse upon the plague, with a preparatory account of malignant fevers. In two parts. The first, containing, an explication of the nature of those diseases. The second, the method of cure ... / [Sir Richard Blackmore]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    can vary their Nature: Some Malignant Fevers are contagious tljo’ in a lower De¬ gree, are they therefore varied in Specie and rang’d in another Clafs from the reft of that Sort ? It is therefore repugnant to Reafon and good Senfe to diverfify thefe' two and affign them different Ranks • but if any Gentlemen will ftill adhere to this unreafonable Opinion, let them condefcend to fettle the eifential Boundaries and diftinguifh- ing Marks between them, for I am not 9-ble to dilcern them, T o illuftrate this Matter I wil] a little confider the Nature and Properties of the Ancient Leprofy that afflicted the lfmelites, which feem’d peculiar to that People, and is now imitated by tiiofe Difeafes which are call’d Elephantiaor Baftard Leprofy, a fcurfy Itching and fpreading Tetter or a fcal’d Head, thefe are indeed of the fame Nature and Kind with the Ancient Leprofy as Malignant Fevers are with the Plague, and differ but in an inferior Degree of Cor¬ ruption, and its Freedom from Contagion. So that as the Peftilence is the higheft Degree of putrid Fevers, fo the Leprofy of the Hebrews is the higheft of the Kind diftinguifh’d from other Difeafes, by white Laly fpreading Scabs and corroding fcurfy fetters, and this is further evident by the d ifferent Degrees of this kind of Diieafe men¬ tion d in the Books of Mojes, for which the C 2 Mark;,
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