A second address to the owners and agents of coal-mines : on destroying the fire and choke damp in confutation of two pamphlets, lately circulated in the neighbourhood of Newcastle / by Thomas Trotter.

  • Thomas Trotter
Date:
1806
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A second address to the owners and agents of coal-mines : on destroying the fire and choke damp in confutation of two pamphlets, lately circulated in the neighbourhood of Newcastle / by Thomas Trotter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    *4 the allies of their friend to reft in quiet, after this facrifice of truth and difcretion to his manes ! The true inference that ought to be made of the firft quoted fentence, is, that the popular difcuflion of contagion, which happened at Newcaftle four years ago, had fo alarmed the minds of the inha- bitants concerning infectious fevers, that when a typhus appeared in 1803, it excited a dread equal to the plague itfelf. And it may be ftill in memory, that but for the active meafures taken by Thomas Smith, efq. who was then mayor, to quiet the fears of the neighbourhood, the trade of the port muft have been fufpendedfor a time. Now what had an allufton to this fubject to do with a “ Collection of papers on infection,” or the “ pofthumous reputation” of any phyfician. I was in Newcaftle during a great part of this difpute, and it is well known I never interfered, directly or indi- rectly, with it. And with refpect to the other fentence, the very worft that could be faid of it, is, that it was a poetic flight of a man who fometimes attempted to write
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