Letters revealed to Isaac Newton: Proposed to cure plague with frogs vomiting

Two unpublished pages of Newton's earlier letters to Jan Baptiste van Helmont of the 1667 book on plague “Da Peste” (Mutarja) will be auctioned online this week.

Newton had been a student at Cambridge Trinity College, when the university closed as a measure to guard against bubonic plague, which killed 100 thousand people in London between 1665 and 1666, writes The Guardian.

When the famous scholar returned to Cambridge in 1667, he began to study Van Helmont's work. Murtaya's analysis is the most important that she has done for this disease, according to Bonhams, who said these letters were <x0th) of enormous importance to Newton's entire work, and also to the understanding of the current context”.

These notes include the case of the man who had touched some infected <x0-letters, and who was immediately sick and developed mural ulcers on the index finger and died just two days later. ”

Newton had also suggested that plague - infected countries should be avoided.

However, some of Newton's proposed treatments are impossible to consider nowadays. He wrote that the best cure was to force frogs to vomit and then use the serum together and the dust of the frog to touch areas infected by the plague to remove the infection.

These pages will be auctioned from Bonhams for an estimated $80,000 to $140,000. /Periscope