A Treatise On the Plague And Yellow Fever With An Appendix Containing Histori
A Treatise On the Plague And Yellow Fever With An Appendix Containing Histori
James Tytler
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No fooner had he " arrived, than hedeilred to be conduced to his apart- ** ment, where he put a handkerchief between his fhoul- " ders and his (hirt, and, when every body retired, he " began to repeat his breviary. A few minutes after, a " loud noife was heard in Mi\ Bertholi's chamber $ and " his cries having alarmed the family, they haflened to " the arife from opening vaults and burying grounds. An inftance of this he gives of the ground of a church in Paris being dug up, which emitted a nau...feous Vapour, affeding fcveral people in the neighbourhood. From M. Chaptal's obfervations it appears, that bodies do not foon diflblve in fuch a manner as to emit nodii'agreeable or noxious effluvia, when buried. M. Becher, he fays, " had the courage to make obiervations during the courfe * of a year upon the decompofition of a carcafe in the open air. The firft ti vapour which riles, he fays, is fubtle and naufeous : fome days after, it has ' a certain four and penetrating fmell. After the firft weeks the flcin be- comes covered with a down, and appears yellowifti ; greenifh fpots are formed in various places, which afterwards become livid and black ; a thick glofey or mouldy fubftance then covers the greateft part of the body : the fpots open and emit a fanies.
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