A Discourse on the PLAGUE; A Discourse on the

SMALL-POX and MeasLES; Rhazes's Treatife on the SMALL-POX and Me ASLES; An Historical account of a new method for extracting the FOUL AIR out of ships, &c.; and, A Difcourse on the SCURVY.

E DIN BU R G H. Printed by A. DONALDSON and J. REID. For A L E XANDER DONALDSON, and fold at his shops in London and Edinburgh.

MDCCLXV.

C Ο Ν Τ Ε Ν Τ S.

DISCOURSE on the PLAGUE.

Preface

pag. 3:

P A RT 1.

Of the plague in general.

22

CHAP. I. Of the origin and nature of the

plague

II. Of the causes which spread the

plague

40

Of the methods to be taken against the

plague.

58

CHAP. I. Of preventing infection from other

countries

II. Of stopping the progress of the

plague, if it should enter our

country

III. Of the cure of the plague

67

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