FINIS.
OF THE
Different Causes
OF
Pestilential Diseases,
And how they become Contagious.
WITH
REMARKS
Upon the Infection now in
FRANCE,
And the most probable Means to
prevent its Spreading here.
By John Quincy, M. D.
LONDON:
Printed for E. Bell, at the Cross Keys in Cornhill; and J. Osborn, at the Oxford-Arms in Lombard-street, 1720.
OF THE
Different Causes
OF
Pestilential Diseases, &c.
THERE is hardly any one Subject more largely treated of by Physical Writers, than that of Pestilential Diseases; and the Reason of it I take to be, the Frequency in all Ages and Countries, of Alarms from such dreadful Destroyers; and the uncommon Impressions they are apt to make upon the Minds of those, whose Profession naturally leads them to enquire into their Causes. But in this it has fared as with all the other Branches of that noble Science. The Conjectures and