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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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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

Level: Piece

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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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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