Letters relating to the plague
Subtitle: and other contagious distempers.  Part I.  Letters to Martin Folkes ...  Wherein the principal ways by which the infection of the plague, or any other contagious fever, may be conveyed to human bodies, are carefully considered; and proper means of safety from it are proposed.  Part II.  Letters to *****. Containing general rules for a suitable management when that sickness shall be brought into any city, army, or navy; and proper preservatives from it.  Likewise an account of events predicted in the word of God, and to be expected in the time of a pestilence, &c.  And a letter to John Milner, Esq. containing an account of the nature of the cause which produced the contagious distemper among the cattle in 1714 ...  Whereunto are added copper-plates of machines, which may be useful in an infectious season.  Designed for usefulness to the public, and to families, and particularly for the safety of magistrates in the performance of their office ...
Contributors: Lobb, Theophilus, 1678-1763 (autograph); Mortimer, Thomas (association)
Publisher: J. Buckland
Published: 1745
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 411
Subjects: Plague -- Prevention; Communicable diseases
Notes: Includes advertisements.

Includes bibliographical references.

RBSC copy: Author's presentation copy to Thomas Mortimer.