Volume 2

The plague at Marseilles consider'd: with remarks upon the plague in general, shewing its cause and nature of infection, with necessary precautions to prevent the spreading of that direful distemper ... Also some observations taken from an original manuscript of a graduate physician who resided in London during the whole time of the late plague, anno 1665 ... / [Richard Bradley].

  • Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732
Date:
1721
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Credit: The plague at Marseilles consider'd: with remarks upon the plague in general, shewing its cause and nature of infection, with necessary precautions to prevent the spreading of that direful distemper ... Also some observations taken from an original manuscript of a graduate physician who resided in London during the whole time of the late plague, anno 1665 ... / [Richard Bradley]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ' I fuppofe there ma^ he fuch Jbns in the World who do not agree with the Hypothejis I have laid down in the following Sheets, althd’ many Learned Authors have fup- ported it; and again, I expeB o- thers to Except againfl the Concife way I have tahn, in writing up- on a Suh]eci, which at this time ought to be Jet in the plaineji Light; hut as I found the Danger cf Tefiilence fpreading it felj more and more every Day, a true Lover of his Country could not he eajie with¬ out giving the Eublick fome Hints to prevent its difml Ljfefls, and at the fame time to engage the Learns ed to write upon fuch an Occafmn. And it ts with Lie a fare I oh- ferz'c, that fince the former Editi¬ ons