A treatise of the plague ... / By Eugenius Philalethes, jun. [i.e. R.S].

  • Samber, Robert
Date:
1721
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    \t requires all our ferious Confideration, At¬ tention, and Application, to prevent catching hold of our own. To do this, we ought to make ufe of all the Helps of Nature and Art; and the rich, who have Means to procure both, will not want all poflible Aid and Care : The Poor and the middle Sort, are here, as in all other Cafes, to be the greateft Sufferers. It is for the Sake of thofe I publifh this fmall, but I hope, uleful Treatife. The Phyficians and Apothecaries furely will not take this amifs, it would be cruel to think fo ; I know there are but two forts of thefe, the Good, and the Bad ; the Good will nor, and as for the Bad, thofe very few are not worth our Notice. I am very well fatisfied,that there have come into the World a great many ingenious Trea- tifes relating to the Plague ; but as they have been, for the moft Part, very fpeculative, they have ferved rather to difplay the fine Genius of their feveral Authors, than to be of any real Ufe to Mankind. Alas ! What avails it to know the nice Definitions of a Diftemper, its remote and proximate Caufes, and a long Jargon of Particles, EfRuvias, Infe&s, and that infinite Gallimatias of Peftilential and peftiferous Ve¬ hicles, if I know not how to preferve my felf from their Contagion, or rid my felf of it, when I am fo unhappy as to labour under it ? What I jfhall do then, in the following Pages, B 2 is