Mirror of Literature,  3 (1824), 308–09.

Lambeth

R M

Genre:

Poetry

Subjects:

Naturalists, Travel, Collecting, Acclimatization, Horticulture, Disease, Epidemiology


    Observes of St Mary's Church, Lambeth: 'Here sire and son—botanic Tradescants lie. / Much useful knowledge England owes to ye, / And many a beauteous flower / And useful plant to us unknown before'. A footnote to a poetic claim that superstition originated in Egypt notes that Richard Mead considered the 'filth of Cairo' to be one of the causes of the plague. (309)



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