A practical treatise of the plague, and all pestilential infections that have happen'd in this island for the last century : Laying down the rules and methods then used by the most learned physicians of those times... as well as what are now proper to be used, in order to prevent the spreading of that contagion. With a prefatory epistle address'd to Dr. Mead, on account of his Short discourse concerning pestilential contagion
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Type of record: Book
Title: A practical treatise of the plague, and all pestilential infections that have happen'd in this island for the last century : Laying down the rules and methods then used by the most learned physicians of those times... as well as what are now proper to be used, in order to prevent the spreading of that contagion. With a prefatory epistle address'd to Dr. Mead, on account of his Short discourse concerning pestilential contagion
Classmark: Medicine/MEA
Creator(s): Browne, Joseph (fl. 1700-1721)
Related people: Mead, Richard, 1673-1754
Publisher: Printed for J. Wilcox, and and sold by J. Roberts
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1720
Language: English
Size and medium: 79, [1] p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/243651
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991014736179705181
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Additional description
Bound with 4 other publications in a volume lettered "TRACTS OF THE PLAGUE". Volume contents: 1. Mead, R.: A short discourse concerning pestilential contagion, 1720 -- 2. Doctor Mead's Short discourse explain'd, 1721 -- 3. Browne, J.: A practical treatise of the plague, 1720 -- 4. A selection of very valuable and scarce porces relating to the last plague, 1721 -- 5. Chicoyneau, F.: A succinct account of the plague at Marseilles, 1721
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