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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    nicatc my fentiments in the moft unreferved nianner. Accordingly I put into the go* vernor's hands a paper, wherein I laid great flrefs upon the neceffity of employing every poffible precaution with regard to the hof- pita], where I affirmed, that the plague had appeared among the attendants, as before mentioned ; I added, that it would be necef- fary to make ftrid: enquiries to afcertain, whether the contagion was concealed in any part of the town, and that, wherever it fhould be difcovered, the fame precautions, as in the cafe of the hofpital, fhould be adopted : that, for the fame purpofe, it would be further neceiTary to delire the phy- licians and furgeons, whenever they fhould perceive any unufual or doubtful fymptoms in their patients, to give immediate notice thereof to the Board of Health; and to order the police-officers to appoint a conful- tation of phyficians, whenever feveral per- fons fhould fall ill in the fame houfe, I re- marked, however, that there would be great difficulties in the bufinefs, if the contagion exifted in other parts of the town befides B 4 the