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MOST humbly offer to You my Thoughts concerning the Prevention of the Plague, which I have put together by your Command. As soon as you were pleased to signify to me, in his Majesty's Absence, that their Excellencies the Lords Justices thought it necessary for the publick Safety, upon the Account of the Sickness now in France, that proper Directions should be drawn up to defend our selves from such a Calamity; I most readily undertook the Task, though upon short Warning, and with little L | A Discourse on the Plague by Richard Mead 1 A Discourse on the Plague by Richard Mead The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Discourse on the Plague by Richard Mead This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title A Discourse on the Plague Author Richard Mead Release Date April 28 2010 EBook 32171 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A DISCOURSE ON THE PLAGUE Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive Canadian Libraries. A DISCOURSE ON THE PLAGUE BY RICHARD MEAD 2 A Discourse on the Plague by Richard Mead Fellow of the College of Physicians and of the Royal Society and Physician to his MAJESTY. The NINTH EDITION corrected and enlarged. LONDON Printed for A. MILLAR against Catharine-Street in the Strand And J. BRINDLEY in New-Bond-Street. MDCCXLIV. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE James Craggs Esq ONE OF His MAJESTY S Principal Secretaries of State. SIR I MOST humbly offer to You my Thoughts concerning the Prevention of the Plague which I have put together by your Command. As soon as you were pleased to signify to me in his Majesty s Absence that their Excellencies the Lords Justices thought it necessary for the publick Safety upon the Account of the Sickness now in France that proper Directions should be drawn up to defend our selves from such a Calamity I most readily undertook the Task though upon short Warning and with little Leisure I have therefore rather put down the principal Heads of Caution than a Set of Directions in Form. THE first which relate to the performing Quarantaines c. You who are perfectly versed in the History of Europe will see are agreeable to what is practised in other Countries with some .