An account of the plague which raged at Moscow, in 1771

By CHARLES DE MERTENS, M. D.
MEMBER OF THE MEDICAL COLLEGES OF VIENNA AND STRASBURG, FORMERLY IMPERIAL AND ROYAL CENSOR, AND CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE MEDICAL SOCIETY AT PARIS.
TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH, WITH NOTES.
LONDON :
PRINTED FOR F. AND C. RIVINGTON, NO. 62, ST. PAUL’S CHURCH-YARD.
1799.

Under these circumstances the Translator thought it would be useful to call the attention of the practitioners in medicine of this country, to the subject of pestilential contagion, by publishing the following Account of the Plague at Moscow in the year 1771. Besides the narrative of the rise and progress of the disorder, and the description of its symptoms and treatment, this account contains also a detail of the methods which were successfully employed in that city for checking and totally extinguishing the contagion; and in particular a detail of the means by which a large edifice, situated in the centre of Moscow, and containing about one thousand four hundred persons, was preserved from the pestilence during the whole of the time that it raged there.
1st. the comparison between the plague and the smallpox ;
2d. the reflexions on the inoculation of the plague ;
3d. the precautions to be employed in wars with the Turks ; and