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

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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$■ ['41 ]; alwl^s keeping his Mmd in a right Frame,- an^ his Body in a temperate and regular Man¬ ner ; which have ever been found in Expe^ rience great Prefernjatives againft the Infec--^ tion of the Plague. And as a furtlier Cau^ tion again ft the spreading the Irifedtion of the Plague, fince the Poor^ are generally obferved to fuffer firft, by Reafoii of their Naflimfs^ and want of wholefome Provijiony it would be abfolutely neceflary, as early as pofiible, to remove the Poor, into Lazaret^ tds or Leper Houfes^ without the Town, to be fupported, and kept clean at the public Expence : And this is the only right Ule of Lazaretto'$ ; and a very reafonable and good Pradtice it is, and what would meet with an anfwerable Succefs, as Experience has for¬ merly confirmed, at Venice*, Sabeliicus L. 3. Decad, 4. rrr. ven. and at Milan, Mercurialis, cap, 20, de pefle : Whereas, the Shutting up the InfeBed together, is a moft inhuman and barbarous Practice/ But a Method that snWI antidote x\iq par¬ ticular Fault of the Ai?\ which occahons the Plaguey Teems the inoft likely Prefervative again ft the Plague, and xht Spreading of its Infediion : And could we be fecur'd from un-* wholefome Air, we need ncytxfear the Plague, And as Prevention is far better than Curey no proper Means ought to be negledted to preferve us from fo great a Calamity.$