A Treatise on the Plague and Yellow Fever

A Treatise on the Plague and Yellow 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

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 The text of this e-book has been preserved as in the original, including archaic and inconsistent spellings (although the archaic 'long s' has been replaced with an ordinary 's'), but numerous presumed typographic errors have been corrected silently a list of these is appended at the end. Hyperlinks have been inserted to assist readers. Page numbers are shown in the right margin. Footnotes have been numbered consecutively and repositioned at the end of the book. Footnotes are listed at the end. AMONG the many diseases which afflict the human race, we find ONE, upon record, so irresistible in its progress, so fatal in its attacks, and so entirely beyond the powers of medicine; that, like the serpent Python, the Leviathan, or the Mammoth, among animals, it has generally been distinguished by names expressive of its destroying nature; not, like other diseases, by any particular appellation derived from its symptoms. In the Hebrew language this distemper is expressed by the word which signifies perdition;1 in2 Greek it is called loimos, from luo, to destroy; in Latin, pestis, from pessundo, to overthrow; and in English, the plague, from the Latin plaga, a stroke with a whip; alluding to the common opinion, that it is a scourge from heaven, taking vengeance on mankind for their sins. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 67453
Author: Tytler, James
Release Date: Feb 21, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: Printed by Joshua Cushing, for B.B. Macanulty
Publication Date: 1799
Publisher Country: United States