Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Anniversary Oration on the Subject of Quarantines, Delivered to the Philadelphia Medical Society, on the 21st of January, 1807
So had the troops of the various European nations, during the continuance of the holy wars. Yet, in these instances, no suspicion appears to have been entertained of the introduction of, the Asiatic pestilence into any part of Europe. But we know that this disease raged several times among the crusaders whilst in Asia, as well as in many of the armies of ancient Rome.
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