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to be in the greateft danger. As the people and horfes began 

 to be attacked with the like lyniptoms, and to drop off, no 

 time was to be loll ; we therefore ordered the people and 

 horfes to be removed to the woods, and to be clofely guarded. 

 Travellers were obliged to proceed, without flopping, to the 

 next ftage; and in eonfequence of a reprefentation made by 

 us on the fubjeft, the whole road from Novogorod to Pcterf- 

 burgh was afterwards flopped, ,fo that travellers were forced 

 to purfiie the old road to Novogorod bv Krafnoe belo. The 

 preventing of ail intercourfe with the furroundlng country 

 feemed the more neceflarv, as in other places, fuch asTofna, 

 Luban, and from Sofninficoi to Novogorod, feveral horfes and 

 fome men had already died. The road alfo by If( hora and 

 Novogorod was flopped; and this cjrcumflance occafioned 

 great alarm at Peterfburgh. Lieutenant Freyman, at Kchora, 

 fuffered no pcrfon from us to approach that place; and would 

 not receive our report, till wc fent a fubaltern to reprefent to 

 him the ncceflitv offending off our information; which he 

 at lafl did, but not till he had employed the precautions ufed 

 in regard to letters from places where peftilential difeafes 

 prevail, fiich as finnigating them and drawing them through 

 vinegar. 



" As all the means propofed for checking this difeafe were 

 of no avail, I at hilt conceived the idea of laying afide all 

 other medicines, and confining mvfelf to cinchona alone. 

 This remedy, indeed, produced an evident change ; for the 

 mortality foon after ceafed. The patients acquired a ftron2;er 

 pulfe, pcrfpiration and, evacuation by ftool were promoted, 

 and they foon recovered their appetile. The tumours in the 

 face difappeared, and the carbuncles dried up of themfelvcs. 

 I applied to them neither faU'CS nor plafters ; fori clearlv 

 faw that thefe tumours would not be affeftcd by external 

 means : veflcatories and fcarification made them only more 

 difficult to be healed. At length the evil ceafed ; yet care 

 \vas taken to keep the difcafed feparate from the found, and 

 to employ ail the other precautions ufual in tlie time of the 

 plague. 



■* On clofer examination, T found that all thofe attacked 

 by the difeafe, without exception, had handled or touched 



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