An account of the plague which raged at Moscow, in 1771 / By Charles de Mertens ... Translated from the French, with notes [by R. Pearson].
- Karl von Mertens
- Date:
- 1799
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An account of the plague which raged at Moscow, in 1771 / By Charles de Mertens ... Translated from the French, with notes [by R. Pearson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![/ [ * ] and 4th. the precautions continually necejfary in places expofed to the pejlilential contagion• Thefe topics have been omitted, becaufe with regard to the firft, as the fmallpox and the plague agree in no other refpedt but in that of being propagated by contagion, a comparifon between them feems to be quite unneceffary ; becaufe, as to the fécond, the inoculation of the plague is proved to be ufe- lefs by the well-eftablifhed fad:, that the fame perfon is fufceptible of taking it feveral times * ; and becaufe with regard to the third and fourth points, they only lead to repeti¬ tions of general and particular precautions mentioned in other parts of the pamphlet, or fuggeft hints which do not apply to an infular lituation like ours. - - 1 Next to a detail of all the events which took place during the raging of the plague * Notwithstanding this, Mr. Samoïlawitz contends Itrenuoufly for the inoculation of this diforder, in a pam¬ phlet entitled cc Mémoire fur l’Inoculation de ia Pelle, &c. Strafbourg, 1782.’* at](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30794778_0009.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
