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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