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Title: The Plague at Marseilles Consider'd

Author: Richard Bradley

Release Date: March 28, 2010 [EBook #31807]

Language: English

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THE
PLAGUE
AT
_MARSEILLES_
CONSIDER'D:

With REMARKS upon the PLAGUE in General,
shewing its Cause and Nature of INFECTION,
with necessary Precautions to prevent the spreading
of that DIREFUL DISTEMPER. Publish'd
for the PRESERVATION of the People
of GREAT-BRITAIN.

Also some Observations taken from an Original
Manuscript of a Graduate Physician, who resided
in LONDON during the whole Time of
the late Plague, _Anno_ 1665.

By RICHARD BRADLEY, F. R. S.

The THIRD EDITION.

_LONDON_:
Printed for W. MEARS at the _Lamb_ without _Temple-Bar_. 1721.
Price 1_s._

TO
Sir ISAAC NEWTON
President of the Royal Society, _&c._

_SIR_,

To Act under Your Influence, is to do Good, and to Study the Laws of
Nature, is the Obligation I owe to the Royal Society, who have so wisely
placed Sir _Isaac Newton_ at their Head.

The following Piece, therefore, as I design it for the Publick Good,
naturally claims _Your_ Patronage, and, as it depends chiefly upon Rules
in Nature, I am doubly obliged to offer it to the President of that
Learned Assembly, whose Institution was for the Improvement of Natural
Knowledge.

_I am, Sir
With due Respect,
Your most obliged,
Humble Servant,_

R. BRADLEY.

PREFACE.

_There would be little Occasion for a Preface to this Treatise, if the
last Foreign Advices had not given us something particular relating to the
Pestilence that now rages in the South Parts of_ France; _and what may
more particularly recommend these Relations to the World, is, because they
come from Physicians, who resided at the Infected Places.