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
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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; &c.
By JAMES TYTLER,
Compiler of the Medical Part of the Encyclopædia Britannica.
Let every one, Physician or not, freely declare his own sentiments about it; let him assign any credible account of its rise, or the causes strong enough, in his opinion, to introduce so terrible a scene.
Thucydides.
‘Twas all the business then To tend the sick, and in their turns to die, In heaps they fell.
Armstrong.
Published according to Act of Congress.
SALEM :