Excerpt from Suggestions for the Prevention and Mitigation of Epidemic and Pestilential Diseases, Comprehending the Abolition of Quarantines and Lazarettos: With Some Opportune Remarks Upon the Danger of Pestilence From Scarcity; Intended to Serve as an Introduction to a Work, Entitled Researches in Turkey, Concerning the Plague, &CBut, in the mean time, it would not be justifiable in persons, who, like myself, have given their attention to the subject, to remain silent under the very alarming symptoms of progressive scarcity which pervade the world, and when several countries are actually aficted with pestilence, arising in a great measure from that source.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.