Morbus anglicanus sanatus, or, A remarkable cure of an inveterate scurvy ... / in a letter from a country clergyman to his son in London. Concluding with a contrivance or two, for saving the lives of those, who shall happen to be in the upper rooms of a house, when the lower are on fire.

Date:
1766
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Credit: Morbus anglicanus sanatus, or, A remarkable cure of an inveterate scurvy ... / in a letter from a country clergyman to his son in London. Concluding with a contrivance or two, for saving the lives of those, who shall happen to be in the upper rooms of a house, when the lower are on fire. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fince the dreadful Cataftrophe of the late Lady Molefworth, and her Family. The Tranfition may not appear fo unnatural, when it is confidered, that the firft Part of the Letter is calculated to preferve the Health of many; the latter the Lives of fome Perfons, in the moft diftrefsful of all Situations; who fhall be in the upper Rooms of a Houfe, when the lower are in Flames. « Upon fudden Fires happening in London, it is often extremely fhocking to read Ac¬ counts of Perfons, leaping out of high Windows j and, to avoid Death in one Shape, almoft furely meeting it in another, perhaps more lingering and terrible. Is it not furpriling, that amongft the many in¬ genious of both Sexes, in this and other Nations, nothing effectual has been invented to fave the Lives of their Fellow-creatures, in a Circumflance fo wretched and deplo¬ rable ? Rope-Ladders, and Wooden ones, have indeed been thought of, and propo- fed i and to the Adtive and Courageous, i they may be ferviceable. But what muft Children, and timorous Females, do in a Cafe of this Nature ? To fuch they can be of