A brief history of epidemic and pestilential diseases; with the principal phenomena of the physical world, which precede and accompany them, and observations deduced from the facts stated. : In two volumes. / By Noah Webster, author of Dissertations on the English language and several other works--member of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences--of the Society for the Promotion of Agriculture, Arts and Manufactures, in the state of New-York--of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and corresponding member of the Historical Society in Massachusetts. ; Vol. I[-II].

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Author:	Webster, Noah, 1758-1843.
Title:	A brief history of epidemic and pestilential diseases; with the principal phenomena of the physical world, which precede and accompany them, and observations deduced from the facts stated. : In two volumes. / By Noah Webster, author of Dissertations on the English language and several other works--member of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences--of the Society for the Promotion of Agriculture, Arts and Manufactures, in the state of New-York--of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and corresponding member of the Historical Society in Massachusetts. ; Vol. I[-II].
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ADVERTISEMENT.

CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME.

ERRORS.

INTRODUCTION.

SECTION I. Of the diversity of opinions respecting the cause and origin pestilence.

SECTION II. Historical view of pestilential epidemics, and the phenomena in the physical world, which precede, attend or follow them, from the earliest accounts, to the Christian era.

SECTION III. Historical view of pestilential epidemics from the Christian era, to the year 1347.

SECTION IV. Historical View of pestilential epidemics, from the year 1340, to 1500.

SECTION V. Historical view of pestilential epidemics, from the year 1500 to the year 1600.

SECTION VI. Historical view of Pestilential Epidemics from the year 1600 to the close of the year 1700.

SECTION VII. Historical view of pestilential epidemics from the year 1701 to 1788.

SECTION VIII. Historical view of pestilential epedemics, from the year 1788 to 1798 inclusive, comprehending the last epidemic period in America.

POSTSCRIPT. Additional facts, collected on a journey which I made through the Northern States, while this volume was in the press.

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CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME.

ERRORS.

SECTION IX. Bills of mortality for the two last centuries, with the principal phenomena of the elements.

SECTION X. Remarks on the preceding History and Tables.

SECTION XI. Pestilential periods exhibited by means of an increase of mortality in distant parts of the world.

SECTION XII. Of the Influenza, or Epidemic Catarrh.

SECTION XIII. Of the order, connection and progression of pestilential epidemics.

SECTION XIV. Of the extent of a pestilential state of air.

SECTION XV. Of the phenomena which attend pestilential periods, with conjectures concerning the causes.

SECTION XVI. Of Contagion and Infection.

SECTION XVII. Of the means of preventing or mitigating pestilential diseases.

SECTION XVIII. Of the disappearance of the plague in some parts of Europe, and of new diseases.

NOTE, On the Venereal Disease.

CONCLUSION, Addressed to the learned Societies, in America, Europe and Asia.

ADDENDA.

Of the Lunar Influence.

Of Electricity.

On the popular modes of guarding against infection.

On Venesection.

On Vapor or Mephitic Air, extricated from the earth by means of discharges of the electrical fluid.

On the revolution of certain Comets.

POSTSCRIPT.