Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries.) THE PLAGUE AT _MARSEILLES_ CONSIDER'D: With REMARKS upon the PLAGUE in General, shewing its Cause and Nature of INFECTION, with necessary Precautions to prevent the spreading of that DIREFUL DISTEMPER. Publish'd for the PRESERVATION of the People of GREAT-BRITAIN. Also some Observations taken from an Original Manuscript of a Graduate Physician, who resided in LONDON during the whole Time of the late Plague, _Anno_ 1665. By RICHARD BRADLEY, F. R. S. The THIRD EDITION. _LONDON_: Printed for W. MEARS at the _Lamb_ without _Temple-Bar_. 1721. Price 1_s._ TO Sir ISAAC NEWTON President of the Royal Society, _&c._ _SIR_, To Act under Your Influence, is to do Good, and to Study the Laws of Nature, is the Obligation I owe to the Royal Society, who have so wisely placed Sir _Isaac Newton_ at their Head. The following Piece, therefore, as I design it for the Publick Good, naturally claims _Your_ Patronage, and, as it depends chiefly upon Rules in Nature, I am doubly obliged to offer it to the President of that Learned Assembly, whose Institution was for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge. _I am, Sir With due Respect, Your most obliged, Humble Servant,_ R. BRADLEY. PREFACE. _There would be little Occasion for a Preface to this Treatise, if the last Foreign Advices had not given us something particular relating to the Pestilence that now rages in the South Parts of_ France; _and what may more particularly recommend these Relations to the World, is, because they come from Physicians, who resided at the Infected Places._ The Physician at _Aix_ gives us the following Account. _The Contagious Distemper, which has become the Reproach of our Faculty here for above a Month past, is more violent than that at_ Marseilles; _it breaks out in Carbuncles, Buboes, livid Blisters, and purple Spots; the first Symptoms are grievous Pains in the Head, Consternations, wild Looks, a trembling Voice, a cadaverous Face, a Coldness in all the extreme Parts, a low unequal Pulse, great Pains in the Stomach, Reachings to Vomit, and these are follow'd by Sleepiness, Deliriums, Convulsions, or Fluxes of Blood, the Forerunners of sudden Death. In the Bodies that are open'd, we find gangrenous Inflammations in all the lower Parts of the Belly, Breast and Neck. Above fifty Persons have died every Day for three Weeks past in the Town and Hospitals. Most of them fall into a dreadful Phrenzy, so that we are forc'd to tie them._ _The other is a Letter from a Physician at_ Marseilles, _sent to_ John Wheake, _Esq; who was so kind to give me the Abstract._ Marseilles _Sept._ 15. 1720. Sir,