A discourse concerning the plague and pestilential fevers : plainly proving, that the general productive causes of all plagues of pestilence, are from some fault in the air: or from ill and unwholesome diet: and that the air is the principal cause of spreading the infection; and the great danger this nation is in of producing an artificial famine; with some hints for prevention and cure ... / By Sir Richard Manningham.

  • Manningham, Richard, Sir, 1690-1759.
Date:
1758
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Credit: A discourse concerning the plague and pestilential fevers : plainly proving, that the general productive causes of all plagues of pestilence, are from some fault in the air: or from ill and unwholesome diet: and that the air is the principal cause of spreading the infection; and the great danger this nation is in of producing an artificial famine; with some hints for prevention and cure ... / By Sir Richard Manningham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 3& ] zetie of the 13-th of February (Paris Arti¬ cle the i 8th of February) the French gather¬ ing; together the Flannels employed about their Sick of the Plague, in their Infirmaries,, in order to be laid up for feme future Service, by no Means to be burned, or otherwife de¬ ft royed : So little did the French imagine this woolen Manufacture a Special Femes and Nurfery of a Plague. But as we have not luffi- cient Experience of aPlague being conveyed in any Goods, it is not ea(y to fay, what Sort of Gcods are the Jpecial Fomes of a Plague. Having tally proved from Fabis, the only proper Proof we think in the prefent Cafe, That the carrying a Plague in Mer¬ chandise, or pafjing of the Plague from one Man into another by Contagion, is inconfiftent with innumerable plain and obvious Experi¬ ment s-, and is only fupported by a few Jingle Experiments, which affrighted People have alledged : We therefore conclude, That the Plague is rarely, if ever, communicated by Perfons or Goods; and that the Plague is produced from J'ome Fault of the Air ; and that the Air is the principal Caufe of thread¬ ing the Infeblion. We final 1 next proceed to give fome Hints for Prevention and Cure. Now, the Plague is a h ever produced\from fome Fault of the Air, or from ill and unwholejome Diet ■, and there¬ fore, whatever is proper to prevent a Plague, muft overcome one of thofe two Caufes. When w 9 *•s- ■ *