Screen reader users: click this link for accessible mode. Accessible mode has the same essential features but works better with your reader.

Books

Try the new Google Books

Researches Into the Laws and Phenomena of Pestilence: Including a Medical Sketch and Review of the Plague of London in 1605 and Remarks on Quarantine ...

Front Cover

William Phillips ... : and sold by Arch ... and Underwood, 1821 - 379 pages

Preview this book »

Selected pages

Title Page

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Contents

Of the slow advancement of medical	1

On the use of the words contagion	18

General remarks on the difficulties	34

The Plague of London	49

Of the time when a Pestilence appears	86

Of the doubts as to the name	137

Of the various symptoms and cha	144

Of the variety in the contagious	152

General remarks on the preceding	197

Of the evidence from quarantine	232

Of contagion and a pestilential	246

Of the principles on which the pro	271

Facts relating to the inquiry	285

Observations relative to the	294

Observations on the connexion	313

Of the prognostic signs of Pesti	324

Of the accompanying mortality	171

Of the decline of Pestilence	177

Of the exemptions during Pesti	183

General remarks on other epidemic	336

Extracts from J G Jacksons Account of Tim	352

Remarks on the origin of the Plague of Corfu	374

Other editions - View all

Researches Into the Laws and Phenomena of Pestilence: Including a Medical ...
Thomas Hancock
No preview available - 2016

Common terms and phrases

admit Aleppo appeared attacked attended beginning Bills of Mortality body bubo and carbuncle causes Chenot circumstances climate common conclusion connexion consider contagion Corfu corrupt death decline died Diemerbroeck disorder distemper doubt dysentery effect effluvia Egypt epidemic epidemic diseases epidemic fever epidemic plague escaped exemption facts famine fatal favourable filth foreign contagion former Heberden Hippocrates Hodges human increase infected inhabitants inquiry latter Lazarettos liable Lord Bacon Maclean malignant fever Malta Marseilles Mead months nature Nimeguen noticed observed occurred opinion origin parishes peculiar perhaps persons pestilence pestilential constitution pestilential fever phenomena physicians Plague of Athens Plague of London Plague of Marseilles pleurisies preceding prevailed principle produce propagation quarantine raged remark Russel says scarcely season small-pox spotted fever spread Stepney supposed sweating sickness Sydenham symptoms tagion testimony things Thucydides tion true Plague visited week winds winter writers yellow fever

Bibliographic information

Title	Researches Into the Laws and Phenomena of Pestilence: Including a Medical Sketch and Review of the Plague of London in 1605 and Remarks on Quarantine ...
Author	Thomas Hancock
Publisher	William Phillips ... : and sold by Arch ... and Underwood, 1821
Original from	the Complutense University of Madrid
Digitized	Dec 11, 2008
Length	379 pages

Export Citation	BiBTeX EndNote RefMan

About Google Books - Privacy Policy - Terms of Service - Information for Publishers - Report an issue - Help - Google Home