Illustrations of the atmospherical origin of epidemic diseases, and of its relation to their predisponent constitutional causes : and on the twofold means of prevention, mitigation, and cure, and of the powerful influence of change of air as a prinicpal remedy / by T. Forster.

  • Forster, T. (Thomas), 1789-1860.
Date:
1829
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Credit: Illustrations of the atmospherical origin of epidemic diseases, and of its relation to their predisponent constitutional causes : and on the twofold means of prevention, mitigation, and cure, and of the powerful influence of change of air as a prinicpal remedy / by T. Forster. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A.D. which spreading in various directions continued to ravage Europe, and Asia, and Africa, for many years, and was attended by peculiar synaptoms. Gibbon calculated that near half the human race fell by this pestilence.* 280. Comet, and two years after it an earthquake in England. 289. A large Comet observed, followed by a severe winter, and a few years afterwards began the carbuncular plague of Busiris and Coptis in Egypt. 298. Comet seen. Earthquake in Syria. A dreadful plague, distinguished by anthrax generally, followed the omission of winter rains in Italy, in 311. 321. Comet : a universal famine in Britain in 325. 335, A prodigiously large Comet is recorded, and was con- sidered as a forerunner of the death of Constantine. . Soon after its appearance, Syria and Cilicia were desolated with pestilence ; and the Tweed over- flowed.f 339. Comet; followed by earthquakes. Deep snow in England, in 341. Julian frustrated in 362, 363i Comet; and large meteors. The destruction of Nice and other cities by earthquakes in 367, do not seem to have accompanied any comets on record. 383, Comet observed : plague of Rome, and in Syria. This comet was evidently the blazing star mentioned by Nicephorus, J which was of a singular figure, and was visible thirty days. Soon after this, followed the filthy and horrible plague of locust at Gaza and Ascalon. 400. A comet, recorded of huge size and horrible aspect, followed by an earthquake near Constantinople, and / the plague. The Euxioe was frozen for twenty days the following winter. There were also severe earthquakes. * Jornandes de Pest. Orosius, and Zosimus in Gal. i. 26. t Eutrop.lib. X. OrosiuB, &c. { Niceph. lib. xii. 37.