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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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    fhould there be Occaiion, it is the craiie Con* ditio.ii ©f the City Buildings, which perhaps may not well ftand its Shocks, were they t® be made with good Quantities of it at a time. THE Matter iikewife of this Gompofitioii in fbme Meafure befpeaks its Ufefulnefs for thefe Furpofes on other Accounts, befides its Elaftkk Force, becaule it dilfufes into the Air great Quantities of that nitrous Salt, which is known to add much to its Serviceablenefs in Life: And whofoever eonliders how much cheaper this is to be procured, and how mucl] eafier pradifed than the firing off Guns, efpe- cially in the Middle of great Towns, cannot but be defirous to try it, in Cafe of fuch Ca¬ lamities as are now with too much Reafo^i feared *, it may not therefore be unaccepta- l>le to give its Gompofitioii here. P Sal. Nitri Partes ii). SaL tartarl P. ij. Sul¬ phur is F. j. opt i me mifccantur in Afortario, par am tepefa&o* Xj* fervetur ad ufuum vafe bene obturato, r 4 r THIS is ordered in a warm Mortar, and to be kept ciofe, becaufe the Salt of Tartar is apt to imbibe a Moifture from the Air,which binders its Explofion. A Drachm or two put in as ciofe a Heap as poffible upon an Iron