An account of the plague which raged at Moscow, in 1771 / by Charles de Mertens, M.D. ... ; translated from the French, with notes.

  • Mertens, Charles de, 1737-1788.
Date:
1799
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Credit: An account of the plague which raged at Moscow, in 1771 / by Charles de Mertens, M.D. ... ; translated from the French, with notes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    [ ^^o ] {even times among the foldiers * and work- men belonging to the Foundling Hofpital; but as I feparated them on the firft appear- ance of the fymptoms, they none of them infcdled the others, except the mafter chim- ney-fweeper, who gave it to his apprentice. After the month of ^July, we ceafed to admit any more foundlings or pregnant women. I propofed to the Governors to hire, in the mean while, a houfe for this purpofe in the fuburbs, which was not determined upon until the month of 0(ftober -f. At this time there ftill continued to die in the town above * There was always a guard of twenty-two men and an inferior officer. After July, I obtained an order not to have them changed. -f It was not without great difficulty that we got a hoLife for quarantine, as well on account of obftacles occa- fioncd by the public calamity, as from the fcarcity of houfes fufficiently roomy. Hence this bufmefs was not fettled until Oftober. In the mean time, many children con- tinued to be expofed at the hofpital-gate. Some of thefe I put into a wooden houfe in the vicinity ; and Mr. de Dur- nowo took others of them under his roof. As foon as the above-mentioned quarantine-houfe was ready to receive them, which was not the cafe till November, I fent them thither. a thou-