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RUSSELL, PATRICK. A Treatise of the Plague: containing an Historical Journal, and Medical Account, of the Plague, at Aleppo, in the Years 1760, 1761, and 1762.Also, Remarks on Quarantines, Lazarettos, and the Administration of Police in Times of Pestilence. [24], 583, [1], clix, [9] pages. 4to, 297x234 mm, 19th-century 1/2 leather, worn and partly discolored, front cover detached; occasional light marginal soiling and spotting. Rush Medical College Library bookplate on front pastedown, their stamp on title, and card pocket on rear pastedown. London: G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1791
first edition of the eyewitness account of a plague outbreak in the Syrian city of Aleppo by a resident British physician serving the English Levant Company. Heirs of Hippocrates 966.5.
