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

by James Tytler

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; &c.

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By JAMES TYTLER,

Compiler of the Medical Part of the Encyclopædia Britannica.

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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.

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Published according to Act of Congress.

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B. B. MACANULTY.