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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    _ [ ] it fhould add its moft pernicious Effeds to the Plague of Peftilence; and io, by joyning both their Forces, become the Means of a moft unjpeakabk DeJiru5iion^ among our fellow Creatures^ and altogether deprive them of the rational Means of Recovery : And we doubt not, but the Goodnefs^ the JVifdom^ and Power of the Legijlature^ will readily concur, with the prudent Meafures of learn^ ed Phyficians, for preventing as much as poffible, fuch great Cahmities from befalling the People of this Nation : Who have an undoubted Right to all the Care and Protec¬ tion, that Guardians of their Lives and Fortunes can reafonably procure them. And upon proper Application from our Royal Col¬ lege of Phyficians^ can it be imagined, that the Wifdom and Humanity of our GovernorSy will negledt to lend their utmofl Ajjijlanccy for the Prefervaion of their own and the Peoples Health ? Nothing fare can be more worthy their ferious Confideration and CarCy than the Means of prefe7^vi?2g Health, that ine(lhnable Bleffing, which we muft all al¬ low to be the Firji Ground^ and 77iofi necefla- ry higredient of every Enjoyment of Life : For without Healthy there can be no true Relijh of any other Enjoyment. Wherefore lince Healthy is the very Foundation of poral Happinefs, the due Means of preferv- ing It, and of reftoring It when loft, cannot poifibly by wife and confiderate Perfons, be K ' ever