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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    [34] fixth Day, like the Smail-Tox; they gene^ rally dyed about the fifth or feventh Day. The Author tells us, that out of a great Drove, fuch as the Merchants bring yearly into Italy out of ‘Dalmatia and the border* ing Countries, one Beaft happen’d to ftraggle from the reft, and be left behind; which a Cowherd brought to a Farm belonging to the Count Bvrrqmeo: This Beaft infeded all the Cows and Oxen of the Place where he was taken in, with the fame Difteniper he labour’d under ; the Beaft it felf dying in a few Days, as did all the reft, except one only, who had a Rowel put into his Neck. ’Tis no ftrange thing therefore, if from the Effluvia, proceeding from the fick and dead Cattle, and from the Cow-Houfes and Pa- ftures where they were fed,and perhaps from the Cloaths of the Cowherds themfelves, this infedion falling upon a proper Subjed,lhould diffufe it felf fo largely. W hen therefore this fubtile venomous Exhalation Happens to meet with any of the Cow-kind, joining it felf with the ferous Juices and Animal Spirits, ’tis no wonder it lliould diforder the natural Con- liftence' of the Blood, and corrupt the Fer¬ ments of theVifcera; whence it follows, that the natural Fundions of the Vifcera are vitiat¬ ed, and the requifite Secretions ftopr. For Dr. Ramazzmi not only fuppofes, but af- ferts, that a Poifon of this kind, rather fixes and coagulates, than diflblves the Blood; For befide