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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    [ « ] and 4th. the precautions continually necejfary in places expofed to the pejiilential contagion. Thefe topics have been omitted, becaufe with regard to the firft, as the fmallpox and the plague agree in no other refped: but in that of being propagated by contagion, a comparifon between them feems to be quite unneceffary; becaufe, as to the fecond, the inoculation of the plague is proved to be ufe- lefs by the well-eftablifhed faft, that the fame perfon is fufceptible of taking it feveral times * I and becaufe with regard to the third and fourth points, they only lead to repeti- tions of general and particular precautions mentioned in other parts of the pamphlet, or fuggeft hints which do not apply to an infular lituation like ours. Next to a detail of all the events which took place during the raging of the plague '* Notwithftanding this, Mr. Samoilowitz contends ftrenuoufly for the inoculation of this diforder, in a pam- phlet entitled Memoire fur rinoculation de !a Pefte, &c. Strafbourg, 1782.