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 ] ally blow from theNoith-Eaft, and from that Month to O£iober, the direft contrary Way. And Plants are no lefs fubjed to be de- ftroy’d by Infeds, than Men andQuadrupedes, is I have explain’d in the Chapter of Blights, in my New Improvements ofT’ lanting andGar^ dening. Thants of all degrees are fubjed to Blights, which are fo varioufly communicated to them, that fometiraes a whole Tree will periih by that Dillemper; now and then a few Leaves, or Bloffoms only, and perhaps a Branch or two, will be Ihrivel’d, or fcorch’d by it, and the reil remain green and flourifliing. I have yet never obferv’d this Difeafe to happen a- mong Plants, but upon the bfow’ing of lharp and clear Eafterly Winds, which are moft fre(]uent in England&ho\xtMarch ; but fome- tiines happenin other Months. Itisvery ob- fervab!e,that the Caterpillars generally attend thefe Winds, chiefly infeding fome one fort of Tree more than another, and even then not every vrhere upon the kind of Tree they at¬ tack, but fome particularBranches only ; from w hich Obfervalions I think w?e may draw the , following Inferences, either that the Eggs of thole Infeds are brought to us by the Eajlerly Winds, or that the Temperature of the Air, w hen the Eajlerly W inds blow', is necefhtry to hatch tin ic Creatures,fuppofingtheir Eggs j V ere alret-dy laid up m thole infeded Parts of the Trees the pi feeding Year. The