Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 708

DANIEL DEFOE (1661?-1731) The history of the great plague in London, in the year 1665. . . . To which is added, A journal of the plague at Marseilles, in the year 1720. F. and J. Noble 1754 376 pp. 18.9 cm.

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Defoe could scarcely have been "a Citizen, who lived the whole Time in London" as stated on the title page of the book since he was only four or five at the time of the plague of 1665. Nevertheless, this book gives a vivid description of the London plague as well as a later plague that struck Marseilles in 1720.

Cited references: Cushing D100; Osler 4712 (1722 ed.); Wellcome II, p. 441

Gift of John Martin, M.D.