The plague of Marseilles in the year 1720 / From documents preserved in the archives of the city, and published by authority, in the year 1820 ... Read at the Royal College of Physicians ... 1834.

  • John Ireland
Date:
1834
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Credit: The plague of Marseilles in the year 1720 / From documents preserved in the archives of the city, and published by authority, in the year 1820 ... Read at the Royal College of Physicians ... 1834. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Vll of the volumes in question in the succeeding or secular year. It is with the first volume the following i paper is chiefly concerned, though notice is occasionally taken of other parts of the work. It consists of a brief narrative reduced from the Journal; the substance of the opinion of the physicians sent by the court to inquire into the nature of the disorder; and a few observations which occurred to me from the perusal of the whole collection. When the paper was completed, it was sub¬ mitted to the judgment of Sir Henry Halford as a sequel to the former. Sir Henry perused it with his accustomed indulgence, and obli¬ gingly wished that it might be read to the Royal College. It is almost needless to say that after the experience of so much kindness it was impossible not to acquiesce in the proposal;
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