Medical, philosophical, and vulgar errors, of various kinds, considered and refuted / by John Jones, M.B.

  • Jones, John, 1726?-
Date:
1797
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    which he has touched. Farther knowledge than this, either as to its nature or a fuc- cefsful mode of treating it, has not, I be¬ lieve, been acquired much more in this, than in the laft century ; the only chance we had of acquiring any has been loft by the ever to be lamented death of the moft be¬ nevolent Mr. Howard, and the confequent unaccountable theft of his papers. What puzzles our inquiries very much is a fadt, * well attefted by modern travellers of reputa¬ tion, that the plague at Grand Cairo, after its moft dreadful ravages, has been conftant- ]y known to ceafe totally upon one and the fame particular day annually; after which no perfon ill of it dies, nor is any one after that day infedbed by it. Many hypothefes have been offered by authors to account for the caufe of the plague. One fancies that it proceeds from very minute animakula floating in the air* Another, in an ingenious treatife on un¬ heeded caufes, fuppofes it to proceed from deleterious effluvia arifing from orpiment, Or perhaps fome unknown minerals; afluring © us