Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine,  3rd ser. 1 (1822), 721–27.

[Review of Christian Researches in the Mediterranean, by William Jowett]  [1/2]

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Genre:

Review, Serial

Publications reviewed:

Jowett 1822

Subjects:

Public Health, Epidemiology


    Jowett describes a visit to a Coptic Church in Alexandria and reports that incense was frequently used, 'which is very necessary in such a country, where cold damps and pestilential airs sometimes infest a church' (727).



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