Volume 1

A treatise on the plague and pestilential fevers : with some useful hints, for the better preservation and cure. Together with some observations, on the pestilential fever now raging among the horned cattle.

Date:
1751
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the plague and pestilential fevers : with some useful hints, for the better preservation and cure. Together with some observations, on the pestilential fever now raging among the horned cattle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [55l- Andi indeed, could the Plague lay thus con¬ cealed in Clouts and HoleSy Men fliould not find any Safety in any Apparel. Befides thati were this true, what would ^arentiues and Lazarets avail} FORES'TUSi Lib, vij Obfer. 22. fays i ‘‘ That a young Man was feized with the Plague^ only by thrufting his Hand into an old wherein there was a Cob^- nLeby which in that Inftant made a Plague- fore'' And with this Breaking out, it feems, Matters went no farther. Sure fuch vulgar Notions ought to be laughed oilt of the World. The Obfervation left us by PracaJloriuSy does not prove much more than the two former; and thefe three are the principal Experiments brought by Sen^ nertuSy for the Proof of the Plague being a contagious Difeafcy and feem to be the only Foundations for ^.arentines, FRACASLORIUS wrote the bed of all the Authors who fuppofid the Plague to be conveyed in Goodsy See. and on his Authority about Contagiony great Affairs in Religion turned, about 230 Years agOi There was a Plague in VeronUy which deftroyed ] 0,00a Perfons, where, fays the learned Flieron, FracaftoriiiSy out of one Leather-Coat died five and twenty Germans, whg put it oUy one efter another. But this Obfervation, even according to Fracafiorius himlclf, teaches us, that this Coat did not fo much keep* the G Plague