A History of Epidemic Pestilences / From the Earliest Ages, 1495 Years Before the Birth of our Saviour to 1848: With Researches into Their Nature, Causes, and Prophylaxis

EDWARD BASCOME, M.D.
“The all-surrounding heav’n, the vital air,
Is big with death: and tho’ the putrid south
Be shut, tho’ no convulsive agony
Shake from the deep foundations of the world
Th’ imprison’d plagues, a secret venom oft
Corrupts the air, the water, and the land.”
Art of Preserving Health.
LONDON: JOHN CHURCHILL, PRINCES STREET, SOHO. 1851.
HUGHES AND CO., PRINTERS, KING’S HEAD COURT, GOUGH SQUARE.
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF SHAFTESBURY,