Results of an Investigation, Respecting Epidemic and Pestilential Diseases: Including Researches in the Levant, Concerning the Plague, Volumen1T. & G. Underwood, 1817 - 492 páginas |
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Página 377 - Cherson, a letter arrived, stating that the lady was better, and begging that he would come without loss of time. When he examined the date, he perceived that the letter, by some unaccountable delay, had been eight days in getting to his hands. Upon this, he resolved to go with all possible expedition. The weather was. extremely tempestuous and very cold, it being late in the year, and the rain fell in torrents. In his impatience to set out, a conveyance not being immediately ready, he mounted an...
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Página 307 - ... being imported. Public report had derived it from several different islands ; had chased it from ship to ship, and from shore to shore ; and finally conveyed it at different times into the city, alternately by dead and living bodies...
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Página 378 - Howard replied, that his end was approaching very fast ; that he had several things to say to his friend, and thanked him for having called.
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