Observations on the disease called the plague, the dysentery, the ophthalmy of Egypt, and on the means of prevention. : With some remarks on the yellow fever of Cadiz, and the description and plan of an hospital for the reception of patients affected with epidemic and contagious diseases / by P. Assalini ; translated from the French by Adam Neale.

  • Assalini, Paolo.
Date:
1804
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    soldiers, and some entire families, fell vic- tims to the same disease. (See the Jour- nal de Medicine, an. 9, page 373.) The campagnia of Rome, the enviroris of Perpignan, the departments of VAin in France, Hungary, Guinea, Bengal, and 'Other countries, both in Europe and else- where, present spots where fevers show themselves, which make considerable ra- vages, and which are acknowledged to be epidemic, without being contagious, and mortal without being considered the plague. Lind, in speaking of Bengal, says, that in the rainy seasons, mahgnant fevers are contracted, which prove rnime- diately fatal; the body becomes covered with livid spots, and the corpse black m a few hours. If these diseases be neither contagious, nor the plague, why give this terrible name to the epidemic observed in Egypt ^d Syria, and assert it to be con- tao-ious ? One may contract, in my opi- nion, this disease, when the causes which produce it shall by degrees have impaired the health, and predisposed the body to take on diseased action: I will then admit,