A Brief History Of Epidemic And Pestilential Diseases Vol 2 PDF Download

Excerpt from A Brief History of Epidemic and Pestilential Diseases, Vol. 2: With the Principal Phenomena of the Physical World, Which Precede and Accompany Them, and Observations Deduced From the Facts Stated Bills of mortality for the two loft centuries with the principal phenomena of the elements. Our accounts of diseases and the phenomena of the world, which appear to be connected with them, are altogether imperfect. But in the two lad centuries, we have a tolerable history of diseases, and occasionally an account of the reasons, and remarkable occurrences. In the following tables, the reader will find the bills of mortality for London, Augsburg, Dresden, Boston, one Church in Philadelphia, with a few bills of Paris and Dublin; to which are prefixed such of the remarkable phenomena of the elements, as I have been able to collect. As winter makes a part of two years, the word severe is set against the year which preceded the winter. Thus against the year 1607, the word severe refers to the winter of1607-8. The blanks denote, either that nothing singular occurred in thofe years, or that I have no account of the occurrences. Further enquiries might probably enable me to fill many of those blanks. Bills of mortality do not exhibit a complete view of epidemics; as some of the more remarkable, especially Influenza, destroy but few lives, and the bills of the years when that disease alone prevailed, are remarkably low. It is often the immediate precurfor of pestilential diseases in autumn; in which cafes, the bills of the year are very high. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.