Doctor Mead's Short discourse explain'd. Being a clearer account of pestilential contagion, and preventing ... / [Anon].

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1721
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    U ) ft up id, that does not rejoyce and prick up his Ears at thofe ravi filing Expreffions, who does not defire to be inftrucled in this Method of preventing this unmerciful Enemy to Man¬ kind. Come on then, and liften to the Cele¬ brated Dr. Mead, who brings Death to Pefti- lential Contagion ; as he is fa id to have promis’d while he was compofing this Work. But we will next follow Dr. Mead into the Book it felf, where we find that he thinks it neceffary to premije fomewbat in general con¬ cerning Contagion, and the Manner by which it aHs. But alas ! we are to meet with nor¬ thing but Difappointments, fo foon are we fallen from all our Hopes and Expectations: Nothing to be found either of Contagion, or the manner of its acting, tho’ the Title of the Book promifes it, and the firftentring up¬ on the Difcourfe declares it to be necefiary; This is the very Soul of the Book, the fub> jeft Matter upon which every thing turns, the Caufe of the Plague, and the Indication for preventing and curing the Plague, are to b?. drawn out of it. Befides, the moll ancient and beft Phyfi- cians knew nothing of Contagion, and far lefs of Tefiuential Contagion ; Words only brought in by Phyficians in later times, and of Igno¬ rance; and therefore fuch fufpeCted Words ought to be well defcribed and defined before they are made life of; either in difcovering the Nature of abftmfe Difeafes, or when we are