A discourse concerning the plague and pestilential fevers : plainly proving, that the general productive causes of all plagues of pestilence, are from some fault in the air: or from ill and unwholesome diet: and that the air is the principal cause of spreading the infection; and the great danger this nation is in of producing an artificial famine; with some hints for prevention and cure ... / By Sir Richard Manningham.

  • Manningham, Richard, Sir, 1690-1759.
Date:
1758
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A discourse concerning the plague and pestilential fevers : plainly proving, that the general productive causes of all plagues of pestilence, are from some fault in the air: or from ill and unwholesome diet: and that the air is the principal cause of spreading the infection; and the great danger this nation is in of producing an artificial famine; with some hints for prevention and cure ... / By Sir Richard Manningham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    1/88
    A DISCOU CONCERNING P L A G A -N D Pestilential Fevers: \ ' {* PLAINLY PROVING, That the general produ&ive Caufes of all Plagues of PeJUlence^iQ from fome Fault in the Air: or from ill and unwholefome Diet : And that the Air is the principal Caufe of spreading the Infection ; and the great Danger this Nation is in of producing an artificial Famine 5 with fome Hints for Prevention and Cure. If a Scarcity of Bread-Corn, whether mz/ or artifi¬ cial be the Occafion of ill and unwholefome Diet ; tho'it may at prefent more immediately affe6t the Poor only, yet if not timely prevented, itsEviLEFFECTs may foon reach the moft oppulent; forthe Plague of Pestilence may. be much fooner produced in this Nation, by an artifi¬ cial Famine, than by any Infection of the Plague itself from foreign Parts. By Sir Richard ManninghaMjKc M.D. F.RS. and of the College of Phyficians, London. LONDON: Printed for J. Robinson, at the Golden-Lion, Ludgate-f.reel MD.CC.LVIII. [ Price One Shilling and Six-pence. ]