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ATREATISEON THEPLAGUEANDYELLOW FEVER.

With an APPENDIX, containing
HISTORIES OF THE PLAGUE AT ATHENS IN THE TIME OF
THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR; AT CONSTANTINOPLE
IN THE TIME OF JUSTINIAN; AT LONDON IN
1665; AT MARSEILLES IN 1720; &c.
By JAMES TYTLER,
Compiler of the Medical Part of the Encyclopædia Britannica.
Let every one, Physician or not, freely declare his own sentiments about it;
 let him assign any credible account of its rise, or the causes strong enough,
 in his opinion, to introduce so terrible a scene.
Thucydides.
     ‘Twas all the business then
To tend the sick, and in their turns to die,
In heaps they fell.
Armstrong.
Published according to Act of Congress.
SALEM:
PRINTED BY JOSHUA CUSHING, FOR
B. B. MACANULTY.
1799.

CONTENTS.

PART FIRST.
Of the Asiatic or True Plague.
SECTION I.
Page
Of the Plague in general.—Inquiry into the Antiquityof the Distemper.—Of the Plagues mentioned in theOld Testament.—History of several remarkablePlagues which, at various times, have desolated theworld.
SECTION II.
Of the Countries where the Plague is supposed to originate.—TheInfluence of Climate in producing Diseases.—Andof the Moral Conduct of the Human Race inproducing and influencing the same.
SECTION III.
Of Disease in general.—The nature of the Plague as aDisease considered.—Of Contagion.—Whether thePlague is Contagious or not.—Medical Historyof the Distemper.—Inquiry into its ImmediateCauses, and whether an approachi
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