Outlines of a plan, calculated to put a stop to the progress of the malignant contagion, which rages on the shores of the Mediterranean, if ... it should ... make its way into this country / [Richard Pearson].

  • Pearson, Richard, 1765-1836
Date:
1804
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Credit: Outlines of a plan, calculated to put a stop to the progress of the malignant contagion, which rages on the shores of the Mediterranean, if ... it should ... make its way into this country / [Richard Pearson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    until he has set foot upon our shores ? As little prudent will it be to postpone the re¬ gulations here suggested, or others equally calculated to answer the purpose, until the presence of a malignant contagion among us shall be declared by a sudden and un¬ usual mortality. Before I conclude, I wish to remark that a very intelligent physician,^ to whose name I attach the greatest respect, has at¬ tributed our exemption from the Plague, ever since the 17th century, to our im¬ proved mode of living (in regard to diet, cleanliness, and clothing,) joined to the greater spaciousness and airiness of our buildings, the increased width of our streets, and the various contrivances and committee composed of a proper number of medical practitioners had been appointed to examine into the first doubtful cases that occurred. * Observations on the increase and decrease of dif¬ ferent diseases, and particularly of the Plague, by William Heberden, jun. M, D. 410. i8oi.