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VI. Account of a new Method to ture and prevent the 
Plague, as prattifed at Smyrna.  Publifbed by Count 
von Bercurotp. From the Verkundiger, Nov. &, _ 
1798. ; 
Couxrt LzEoroitp von BERcHTOLD, well known by — 
his zeal for promoting every thing that can tend to public 
utility, when at Hamburgh, in the month of July laft, pre- 
fented, among other works, to the fociety for improving the 
arts, a fmall treatife, written by himfelf, on the cure and 
prevention of the plague*. ‘The fociety, in compliance 
with the benevolent wifh of the author, have publithed the 
following extract from it, which on account of its general 
importance to mankind, and particularly to Britain, as a 
commercial nation, we hope our readers will thank us for 
laying before them. 
In the preface, Count von Berchtold pays a handfome 
compliment to the humanity of Mr. Baldwin, the Englith 
conful, who during a long refidence in the Turkifh empire 
made yery accurate obfervations on the nature of the plague, 
and. endeavoured to difeover fome efficacious means of 
guarding againft that dreadful and deftructive fcourge. 
After long labour he at length found that this effeét may be 
produced by olive oil. Perfons infeéted by the plague, and 
given over by the phyficians, were perfectly cured by 
* The title is as follows : Defcription of a new Method to cure and 
prevent the Plague, which was employed with the bett Succefs in the 
Hofpital of St. Anthony at Smyina. Colleéted in that City, and pul lifhed 
by Leopold von Berchtold, Knight of the Military Order of St. Stephen 
in Tufcany. To be diftributed Gratis, for the Benefit of thofe Nations 
which trade in the Levant. Vienna, 1797 23 pages octavo, wf . 
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