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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$C78] and putting a Stop to this deflruBi^e Tfi^tm.^ per among the Cattle, and of trufting to every idle and randmn Receipt in our daily News-papersy to be a fufficient Warning 5 and incline us to be more careful in making a proper Frovifiony againft that great Evil of ^ackery; and that amajing Supinenefs and Backwardnefs of the People, in confulting their own Good ? Or fhall we ftill wait for more dreadful EfFeds of our Folly and Infa-‘ - tuation ? Should it pleafe God, for the Punijhment of our Sins, to permit fuch a Co77f itution of Airy to arife among us, as might produce the Plague of Pefilencey whilft \h2X greater Plague of ^ackery is thus raging in our Na^ tion, what inevitable Confufion and Deftruc- tion muft the People needs be liable to ? All ' the Plagues we have ever had, have not de- ftroyed fo many Lives as the conftant and moft pernicious Effeds of the prevailing Evil oi ^ackery alone, has done in this Na¬ tion. And fhould ever that Evil be fuffer’d to add Fuel to the Fury of the Plaguey how dreadful would the Confequence be, how in^ exprfjible our Miferies ? But we hope better Things. It is, I think, generally allowed, that all Plagues of Pefilencey come, either imme¬ diately from Gody or by his Permiflion ; From thofe which the Almightyy in his juft Anger, is pleafed to fend on a Nation as a Scourg€y$