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Loimologia: or an historical account of the Plague in London in 1665: with precautionary directions against the like contagion ... To which is added an Essay on the different causes of pestilential diseases, and how they become contagious: with remarks on the infection now in France and the most probable means to prevent it spreading here. By John Quincy / [Nathaniel Hodges].

  • Hodges, Nathaniel, 1629-1688
Date:
1720
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Credit: Loimologia: or an historical account of the Plague in London in 1665: with precautionary directions against the like contagion ... To which is added an Essay on the different causes of pestilential diseases, and how they become contagious: with remarks on the infection now in France and the most probable means to prevent it spreading here. By John Quincy / [Nathaniel Hodges]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tion of the Fluids upon which it operates; * The morbiEck Venom, in Proportion to its Energy, and Difagreement in Figure, irri¬ tates Nature, always ready in her own Pre- lervation to expel the Enemy •, but when her Exertions are flow, or imperfeft, or quite languid, fuch a Depuration is not obtained} but upon a RemiEion of the v , i - ^. Conflift, there is Space given for interval 5 . < i ■ and this indeed happens, when the Nature and peculiar Figures of the noxious Parti¬ cles are fuch, as may in the firft: Struggle be broke and fubdued, but after fome Truce infmuates its Virulence further into the Habit, and imprints upon every Part the true Charade rifticks of a fatal Peftilenceo f i : l . f. ••• • • ; - ' ‘ - . } ■ ' , . / • .. , f - 0 B U T to fubdue and throw out the Enemy, the Spirits are at continual Strife, ■although their Efforts are not always fuc~ cefsful} to difpatch this Matter therefore in one Word, as the ABimulation and per- fe£l Mixture of the heterogeneous Parti¬ cles procures a Motion regular and coi}- ; 1 . ] , • r , • * • i formal) le to the Blood, lo from an Inequa¬ lity and difproportionate Mixture, arifes an irregular Circulation and Fermentation, fo that the Reafon for that Uncertainty in thefe Fevers, and their irregular Returns and