A Treatise of the plague [electronic resource] : containing an historical journal, and medical account, of the plague, at Aleppo, in the years 1760, 1761, and 1762, also, remarks on quarantines, lazarettos, and the administration of police in times of pestilence, to which is added, an appendix, containing cases of the plague; and an account of the weather, during the pestilential season / by Patrick Russel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Russell, Patrick, 1727-1805, Author.

Series:

Bloomsbury Arcadian Online Library: History of Science and Medicine

Standardized Title:

A treatise of the plague: containing an historical journal, and medical account, of the plague, at Aleppo, in the years 1760, 1761, and 1762. Also, remarks on quarantines, lazarettos, ... To which is added, an appendix, ... By Patrick Russell, M.D. F.R.S. formerly physician to the British factory, at Aleppo

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plague--Early works to 1800.

Plague.

Plague--Syria--Aleppo--Early works to 1800.

Communicable diseases--Early works to 1800.

Communicable diseases.

Communicable diseases--Hospitals--Early works to 1800.

Quarantine--Early works to 1800.

Quarantine.

Penn Provenance:

From the library of the Lords Hesketh at Easton Neston, and with the bookplate of Sir Thomas Dalrymple Hesketh of Rufford Hall, Lancashire.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([xxiv], 583, [1], clix, [9] pages)

Place of Publication:

London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1791.

Notes:

Includes appendix: Cases in the plague.

NLM p. 394; Wellcome p. 593.

Local Notes:

Contemporary marbled calf, spine richly gilt, slightly rubbed, skilfully rebacked, head of spine slightly chipped.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.