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  THE
  PLAGUE
  AT
  _MARSEILLES_
  CONSIDER'D:


  With REMARKS upon the PLAGUE in General,
  shewing its Cause and Nature of INFECTION,
  with necessary Precautions to prevent the spreading
  of that DIREFUL DISTEMPER. Publish'd
  for the PRESERVATION of the People
  of GREAT-BRITAIN.

  Also some Observations taken from an Original
  Manuscript of a Graduate Physician, who resided
  in LONDON during the whole Time of
  the late Plague, _Anno_ 1665.


  By RICHARD BRADLEY, F. R. S.


  The THIRD EDITION.


  _LONDON_:
  Printed for W. MEARS at the _Lamb_ without _Temple-Bar_. 1721.
  Price 1_s._




  TO
  Sir ISAAC NEWTON
  President of the Royal Society, _&c._


_SIR_,

To Act under Your Influence, is to do Good, and to Study the Laws of
Nature, is the Obligation I owe to the Royal Society, who have so wisely
placed Sir _Isaac Newton_ at their Head.

The following Piece, therefore, as I design it for the Publick Good,
naturally claims _Your_ Patronage, and, as it depends chiefly upon Rules
in Nature, I am doubly obliged to offer it to the President of that
Learned Assembly, whose Institution was for the Improvement of Natural
Knowledge.

  _I am, Sir
     With due Respect,
       Your most