190 THE PLAGUE.

1 have done before, without any other precaution than that of a segar in my mouth, when, by avoiding contact and inhalation, 1 should most assuredly be free from the danger of infection !

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When these precautions are strictly observed, I maintain, (in opposition to all the theoretical dogmas that have lately been propagated) that there is no more danger of infection with the plague, than there is of infection from any common cold or rheum.