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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    [ So.;] in that Cafe; for the Records of Plagues mentioned above, do amply furnifh us with fuccefsful Means of cure, in many Kinds of Plagues of Peftilence : So that if the Sick db not negledt to apply in Time, they may rea- fonably hope for a Cure, from the Admini- llration of proper Remedies, diredted by the Judgment of learned Phyficians. But unlefs an effedual Stop be put to the prevailing Humour ,of ^lacke'ry among the People, and the unfufferable Infolence of Venders of their Nojirums and infallible Medicines, lb called, the Skill of the Phyfician can be of little or no Service to the People ; and would it not then, be very natural to fuppofe, that all the learned Phyficians, might, as foon as pollible, Jecure themfelves, and abandon the People to their own obftinate and de- flrudtive Folly ? But we truft, our Guardiant may over-rule this Madnefs of the People, for thus cheating themfelves of their Money and Health, by confidering, that an unjkilful and promiscuous Ufe, of even the very befl Medicines, cannot but be attended with the word of Mifchiefs, and rarely with z.nygood Effed; more efpecially in fo very acute a Dillemper as the Plague. We would there¬ fore earneftly willi, as a Matter of the utmojl Confequence, that the prefent Plague of Quackery, which has fo long and fo fhame- fully raged in our Hation, may be timely,pru¬ dently, and effeSlually flopped; left at any Time