Excerpt from The Natural History of Aleppo, and Parts Adjacent: Containing a Description of the City, and the Principal Natural Productions in Its Neighbourhood; Together With an Account of the Climate, Inhabitants, and Diseases; Particularly of the Plague, With the Methods Used by the Europeans for the Preservation The Author's intention, when he first began to digest his materials, was only to exhibit an account of the epidemic diseases at Aleppo particularly of the plague, which raged three years in that city during his residence therein. A long and extensive practice among all ranks and degrees of people, had furnished him with the means of being perfectly well acquainted with the customs and manners of the inhabitants. The neighbourhood of this place, its site, and natural productions, he found had not been so fully described, but that there still was room left for improvement. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

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