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LXXXVVII. A further Account of the late 
Plague at Conftantinople, in a Letter of 
Dr . Mackenzie from thence , of the 23 of 
April 1752, to John Clephane, M. D. 
F. R. S. 
Read June 18, A S a corollary to my former account 
fent to Dr. Mead, pleafe to know, 
that, on January 3, 1752, there was an accident of 
the plague, when the thermometer was at 53. Jan. 
24, another accident, therm, y 2. Jan. 26, an acci- 
dent at Buiukdere, therm, yi. Feb. 8, accidents at 
Caffim, Pacha, and Phanar, therm. y2. Feb. 10, 
an accident in Galata, therm. y5 ; patient recover’d. 
Feb. 1 5, another accident in the fame houfe, therm. 
y3* March 8, an accident in Galata, therm, y 6 j 
and not one accident fince, tho’ at prefent the ther- 
mometer is at yo, and has been at 44 the 1 6 inftant ; 
fo that we have great hopes to get clear, if no in- 
fection is convey’d to us from any other quarter. 
T o fatisfy you, how I came to be fo exaCt in dates, 
it is proper to inform you, that I have kept, ever 
fince I have been in Turkey, a journal of the ther- 
mometer, barometer, winds, weather, difeafes, and 
other events ; which I mark down exactly twice 
every 24 hours. 
Profper Alpinus obferves, that the Etefian winds 
at Cairo remove the plague intirely; fo that they 
fear nothing after thefe winds begin. And I can 
allure, bona fide , that all the plagues, which have been 
at Smyrna and Conftantinople for the laft twenty 
1 . years. 
