The plague no contagious disease; or, The infection of the plague seldom, if ever, communicated by touching of persons infected, or, of goods broughts from infected places, but the productive cause of the plague a fault of the air ... With some hints for the prevention and cure of the plague / [Anon].

  • Manningham, Richard, Sir, 1690-1759.
Date:
1744
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Credit: The plague no contagious disease; or, The infection of the plague seldom, if ever, communicated by touching of persons infected, or, of goods broughts from infected places, but the productive cause of the plague a fault of the air ... With some hints for the prevention and cure of the plague / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ *7 ] Spot, only by fmelhng to a 'Turkey Handker¬ chief ; as alfo, that a Man dropp’d down dead, for (landing on a Turkey Carpet: I wilh we were as well and particularly in¬ formed about the Beginning of the Plague in London, as we are of that at Marfeilles : Can any Man think a Bag of Cotton, as was fup- pofed, any real Caufe of the Plague of Lon- don, which had received fome Millions of Bags from infedled Places before, and many Thoufands of Bags fince that Time, with as little Hurt as the former ? BUT Dr. Hodges fays, it was reported, that the Plague was brought in a Bag of Cotton, but that it broke out in JVfminjler; but the Plague was really obferved to begin firfl among the Butchers in Glare-Market: It was alfo reported, that the Plague in 1665 began in St. Giles's by Flax. But we know idle Tales and Reports of this Kind are very common in the Beginning of every Plague. WE were amufed much after the fame Manner, with the forementioned abfurd Ac¬ counts about the breaking-out of the Plague at Marfeilles, but authentic Records lately publilhed, have fully difabufed the World of all thofe idle Reports, and therefore as great Care has been taken by the Govern¬ ment in France, that the Journal of the Plague of Marfeilles Jhould be genuine and made public; every body muft own, that the Matter of Fart related therein, is the moll proper to determine any Queftion about pefilential Con- D 2 tag ion.