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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    [.8] way, ’till they can lodge themfelves in the Sto¬ mach of the Animal, and thereby occafibn Death. We may likewife fuppofe that where thefe Infefts have met with their appointed Nefts, they will certainly lay their Eggs there, which the Breath of the difeafed Perfon will fling out in Parcels, as he has occafion to Re- fpire; fo that the Infedion may be communi¬ cated to a ftander-by, or elfe, through their extraordinary fmallnefs, may be convey’d by the Air to fome Diftance. It is obfervable, that all Infers are fo much quicker in paffing through their feVeralStages to the Hate of Perfeftion, as they are fmallef, and the fmalleft of them are more numerous in their Increafe than the others. Two Years ago when the Plague was at Amiens, I pafs’d by that Places ^nd thcn^ found the Contagion began to abate (’twas then about OEiober, and the Rains began to fall) the People told me they were advifed to eat Garlick every Morning to guard their Stomachs againft Infeftion ; but whether it w'as the Garlick, or the hidden alteration of the Seafon that was the occafion of the de- creafe of thatDiftemper, weiliall examine in another Place; but we may Note, That all the Ground about that City is a Morafs, fo that there is no coming near it but by the Roads, which are Paved and mark’d out. ThisMarfii or Morafs, as all others do in the Summer Seafon, produce vaft Numbers of In¬ fers