Observations medical and political, on the small-pox, and the advantages and disadvantages of general inoculation, especially in cities : and on the mortality of mankind at every age in city and country; with a comparative view and regular tables of all the fatal diseases and casualties in London, during the last one hundred and five years, ... To which is added a postscript, containing the sketch of an easy plan for new modelling and essentially improving the London bills of births and mortality ... / by W. Black.

  • Black, William, 1749-1829.
Date:
1781
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Credit: Observations medical and political, on the small-pox, and the advantages and disadvantages of general inoculation, especially in cities : and on the mortality of mankind at every age in city and country; with a comparative view and regular tables of all the fatal diseases and casualties in London, during the last one hundred and five years, ... To which is added a postscript, containing the sketch of an easy plan for new modelling and essentially improving the London bills of births and mortality ... / by W. Black. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    neyed in profligacy, are plunged into irre- trievable diftrefs;, in confequence of catfhing this diftemper. Many conftitutions of our diffolute young men, might probably by this means be protefted and preferved from ve- nereal depredation. Some regulations are w^anted, and I humbly recommend the fug- geftion of an adequate and prafticable rem.e- dy to the reader's confideration. Are any pox cafes concealed under confumption, or under fores and ulcers, either by deceiving the fearchers, or by means of a fmall bribe ? Ti^uE Scurvy is feldom or ever mentioned by any writer, before the long voyages firft began three centuries ago by the moderns^ that is, on the difcovery of the paflage to Afia by the Cape of Good Hope, and the difcovery of America: then, in confequence of living long on falted and grofs diet, and the v^ant of frefli vegetables or fruits, together with their ignorance of the true caufe and cure, this difeafe made fevere havock amongft naval fquadrons. The ancient navigators, who feldom ventured out of fight of land or capes, and who probably were not under the necelTity of fubfifting long on falted food, 4q |iQt appear to have fuffered by^ noi* even R 4 to