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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    [28] others that came within Scent of her, or e- ven eat where fheGrazed,were furely infefted; it feized their Heads, and was attended with running at the Nofe, and a very naufeous Breath, which killed them in three or four Days. The Herdfmen would not allow it to be the Murrain., nor could give any Account from whence it did proceed, or could find out any Remedy againft it; they only tell us the unufual dry Summer, and the continued £^-Winds, were the occafion of it. This Diflemper had been for two or three Years before it came to us, in Lombardy, Holland, and Hambrough, to the Lofs almoft of all their Cattle. The States of Hollandcaufed a Me¬ dicine to be publifhed for the Good of thofe who had their Cattle thus Diftemper’d; but having been try’d here, ’twould not Cure one in feven, but rather increafed the Infe- ftion by keeping the diftemper’d Cattle longer alive (by fomeDays) than they would have been without it. 'Tis remarkable, that no Oxen had this Diftemper, but only Milch- Cows, which were more tender than the Males. The Herdfmen to keep their Cattle from the Infeftion, let them Blood in the Tail, and rubb’d their Nofes and Chaps with Tar', and when any happened to die of it, they were burnt, and buried deep under Ground. It began at IJlington, fpreading it felf over many Places in Mi^kfex and in EJfex, but did not reach fo far IVejiward from London as twenty Miles. The