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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    [3' ] deftroy’d by the Cold. I have heard that a Oman about CamberwellcxnteA. Six in Seven of her Cows, by giving them once a Week an Infufion of Rhne and Ale-wort. But it may be ask’d, why thefe infeftious Diftempers.fubjefl: to Men, Cattle and Plants, are not univerfal ? And why the Plague ihould not be as well in India, China, the South Parts of Africa and America, as in thefe Parts of the World ? (For I do not find it has ever been in thofe Places.) This Query gives me a farther Opportunity to fuggelt, that In- feds are the Caufe of it, and that they are brought with the Eafterly Winds. In the firfl place, fo far as I can learn, there is not naturally in America any one Kind of Creature or Infeft that is found in any other Part of the World, and the Plants likewife are all different from thofe of other Countries; as it is the fame in India, China, &c. whofe Produfts are quite different from what we find elfewhere. Suppofing then that thefe peftiferous Infefts are only the Produce of Tartary, let us confider to what Parts of the W orld they may be carry’d from thence with the Eafterly Winds; and whetherC/&i- na, the South of Africa and America, are not beyond their Reach, or can reafonably beaf- fefted by them. W hoever confiders the Difpofition of the Land and Water in the Globe, may thus ac¬ count for the Paffage of thefe Infeds, with an