An Essay on Contagious Diseases: More Particularly on the Small-Pox, Measles, Putrid, Malignant, and Pestilential Fevers
An Essay on Contagious Diseases: More Particularly on the Small-Pox, Measles, Putrid, Malignant, and Pestilential Fevers
By Clifton Wintringham
21 Jun, 2019
The Design of this small Treatise being to deduce the Causes, and explain the Phœnomena of some of the most Fatal Diseases which afflict Mankind, can stand in Need of no Excuse, whatever the Performance it self may; and especially at a Time, when no
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The Design of this small Treatise being to deduce the Causes, and explain the Phœnomena of some of the most Fatal Diseases which afflict Mankind, can stand in Need of no Excuse, whatever the Performance it self may; and especially at a Time, when not only several of them Rage amongst us with uncommon Violence, but we are Daily threatned with the dreadful Calamity of a Raging Pestilence. I have endeavour'd to reduce these Diseases to the same Simplicity with Others, to speak Intelligibly of them, and show the real Changes in the Animal Oeconomy, from the Principles of the Modern Philosophy. Less