The Bibliophile Library of Literature, Art, and Rare Manuscripts, Vol. 9 of 30 PDF Download

Author: Nathan Haskell Dole
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780484730877
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Excerpt from The Bibliophile Library of Literature, Art, and Rare Manuscripts, Vol. 9 of 30: History, Biography, Science, Poetry, Drama, Travel, Adventure, Fiction, and Rare and Little-Known Literature From the Archives of the Great Libraries of the World I desire to make a few Observations regarding the Great Plague of London, which may be of use hereafter to those into whose Hands this may come, if they should ever see the like dreadful Visitation. The Infection generally came into the Houses of the Citizens, by the Means of their Servants, who they were obliged to send up and down the Streets for Necessaries, that is to say, for Food, or Physick, to Bake-houses, Brew-houses, Shops, Markets, and the like, it was impossible, but that they should one way or other meet with distempered people, who conveyed the fatal Breath into them, and they brought it Home to the Families, to which they belonged. It was a great Mistake, that such a great City as this had but one Pest House; for had there been, instead of one pest-house, viz., beyond bumbil-fields, where, at most, they could receive, per haps, 200 or 300 People; I say, had there instead of that one been several Pest-houses, every one able to contain a thousand People Without lying two in a Bed, or two Beds in a Room. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.