A Succinct
ACCOUNT
of the
PLAGUE
at
MARSEILLES,
Its Symptoms, and the Methods and
Medicines used for Curing it.
DRAWN UP
And presented to the Governor and Magistrates
of Marseilles, by M. Chicoyneau, Verney
and Soullier, the Physicians who were sent
thither from Paris by the Duke Regent of
France, to prescribe to the Sick in the Hospitals,
and other Parts of that Town, during
the Progress of that Calamity.
Translated from the French by a Physician.
LONDON:
Printed for S. Buckley in Amen-Corner, and
D. Midwinter at the Three Crowns in St. Paul’s
Church-Yard. M.dcc.xxi.
(Price Sixpence.)
he followingRelation having been sent to us by Messieurs Chicoyneau,Verney and Soullier, deputed by the Court for the Relief of our Cityafflicted with the Plague: We Charles Claude de Andrault de Langeron,Knight and Commander of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, ChiefCommander of the King’s Galleys, Field Marshal, and Marshal of hisMajesty’s Armies, Commandant in the City of Marseilles, and theTerritories thereof.
Alphonsus de Fortia Marquis de Pilles, Governing Magistrate, andJohn-Baptiste Estelle, John Baptiste Audimar, John-Peter Moustier, andBalthazar Dieudé, Sheriffs, Protectors and Defenders of the Privileges,Franchises and Liberties of this City, Counsellors of the King, andLieutenants General of the Police, have thought fit to cause it to beprinted; for having been Eye-witnesses of the Zeal with which theseGentlemen have exposed themselves for the Service and Relief of our Sick,as well in the City as in the Hospitals, we are thoroughly persuaded thattheir Observations on the Nature of this fatal Malady, and on the Remediesproper to its Cure, cannot but be very useful to the Inhabitants of diversPlaces of this Province that are unfortunately infected.
At Marseilles this 26 Nov. 1720.
A Short
RELATION
of the
SYMPTOMS
of the
PLAGUE
at
MARSEILLES,
Its Prognosticks and Method of Cure.
o givesome Satisfaction to the just Expectations of very many Persons,as well of this Realm as of foreign Countries, who fearing the