An account of the plague which raged at Moscow, in 1771 / By Charles de Mertens ... Translated from the French, with notes [by R. Pearson].

  • 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 ... Translated from the French, with notes [by R. Pearson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ x 16 ] From the account publifhed by Count Berchtold at Vienna, in 1797, it would appear that'the belt prefervative method is that re¬ commended by Mr. Baldwin, the Britifh Ccn- ful at Alexandria. It conflits limply in anoint¬ ing the body all over with olive oil. Ac¬ cording to the fame account, fridion with warm oil is not only a prefervative, but alfo a curative remedy. See the fécond volume of Duncan s Annals of Medicine. E. Of the means by which the Fbundling-hofpitat at Mofcow was kept free from the Plague. I lhall now give a particular account of the means by which the Foundling Hofpital was kept free from the plague, during the whole time that it raged at Molcow ; in the lalt fix months of which it lwept off fo many thou- fands of inhabitants. From this account it will eafily be feen how poffible k is in times of peltilence, to keep one’s felf, one’s fa¬ mily, and whole buildings, not only private but public, free from infedion. The r k j