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i?ifaUible, and therefore indispensable to people whose vocation may 

 lead them to associate with or to touch or bury the infected. 

 For the rest, such persons as are not compelled to associate with 

 the infected, may effectually avoid the contagion, however 

 violent and deadly it may be, by avoiding contact. I am so 

 perfectly convinced of this fact from the experience and ob- 

 servation I have made during my residence at Mogodor, whilst 

 the plague raged there in 1799, that I would not object to go to 

 any ^country, although it were rotten with the plague, pro- 

 vided my going would benefit mankind, or serve any useful 

 purpose ; and I would use no fumigation, or any other remedy 

 but what I actually used at Mogodor in 1799, which I have de- 

 tailed in the description of the plague, inserted in my account 

 of Morocco, Timbuctoo, ^-c, I am so convinced from my own 

 repeated and daily experience, that the most deadly plague 

 is as easy to be avoided by strictly adhering to the 



PRINCIPLE OF avoiding PERSONAL CONTACT AND INHA- 

 LATION, AND THE CONTACT OF INFECTIOUS SUBSTANCES, 



that I would ride or walk through the most populous and deeply- 

 infected city, as I have done before, without any other precau- 

 tion than a segar in my mouth, when by avoiding contact and 

 inhalation, I should most assuredly be free from the danger of 

 infection ! ! 



When these precautions are strictly observed, I maintain (in 

 opposition to all the theoretical doctrines that have lately been 

 propagated) that there is no more danger of infection with the 

 plague, than there is of infection from any common cold or 



rheum. 



James Grey Jackson. 



4. Relation of a Phenomenon. — By L. A. D'Hombrcs Firmas. 

 "A female kid waskilledbya traiteurof Alais, inwhich was found 

 a well-formed small foetus. Many persons saw it ; I did not 

 see it myself, but I can assure you, that Messrs. Champagne 

 who bought it, Dumas the butcher who killed it, and Jamnies, 

 clerk of the customs, one of the witnesses present, from whom I 

 have taken these details, merit full confidence." 



