Volume 2

Results of an investigation respecting epidemic and pestilential diseases : including researches in the Levant concerning the plague / by Charles Maclean.

Maclean, Charles.

Date:: 1817-1818

Credit: Results of an investigation respecting epidemic and pestilential diseases : including researches in the Levant concerning the plague / by Charles Maclean. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$» Aware, as | was, of ‘the strength and univer- sality of the existing prejudices, respecting con- tagion, I forbore, inm-my conversation, any strong — expression ‘of my opinions\upon that head; farther than common candour seemed'to require; endea- vouring that »mychief expectation: of benefit from the proposed investigation, should appear. to rest upon my possessing the: knowledge of.a method of cure, which would: probably be found efficient. I,could perceive, that,.even the slightest expression of doubt, respecting contagion; ex~- cited,, upon ail, hands,:surmises not, the, most. favourable ‘to the sanity: of my intellects ; whilst, amongst the clergy, they appeared to give rise to mixed, sensations. of .commiseration. and . horror, which I was not then able: fully to account-for, although they now admit of an easy explanation. Those, who peruse the historical facts, which I have since developed, respecting the papal origin of, this-error,:as published. in the. first volume, of these results, will: immediately. perceive, that, in the. eyesiof; the Catholic,clergy of the Levant;.it was very natural, that I should have rendered my- self, by:such, hive obnoxious. toa. pie of heresy. Biri bei ce Aehald Bae tA + add seo Phe following are: the br sipor te pésabi of, my enquiries upon this occasion. “According. toa diary; with which I was fa- voured by’ Robert ‘Corner, Esq. the first ramour$