An essay on the nature and origin of the contagion of fevers ... / [John Alderson].

  • Alderson, John, 1757-1829
Date:
1788
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Credit: An essay on the nature and origin of the contagion of fevers ... / [John Alderson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    O N W.J—■ ■».. T L C O N T A G I O DAILY Experience affords fuch n ous and melancholy Inflances fatal Effeds of Contagion, as rend attempt to mitigate its Violence ing to the Friends of Society fcarce neceffary to place before u Faffs, in Order to excite his hu tention to the Subjed; the Cal felf is the conftant Complaint of Neighbourhood, and almoft every Newt paper prefents us with an Example of the direful Confequences of Infedion, From this malignant Source it is, that our Prifons become literally not only Places of Confinement, but Scenes of Execution ; and what is ftill more alarming. Multitudes who have no Crime to expiate, no Debt to difcharge to the Public, no unrelenting A Creditor T