l o Tie Caufes and Cure upon other Accounts : By which Means it is, that between the Tropicks, and even under the Equator, It is very healthful. UNDER this Head it may not be im- proper to obferve, that too fcanty and mean a Diet, and Feeding upon unripened and un- found Fruits, are frequently charged with a Share in Mifchiefs of this kind. Jofcvhus (a) and Julius Cxfar (7?) amongrt Hiftorians ; Forefiw (c), and feveral other plryfical Wri- ters, give Accounts of Plagues from the like Caufes. Galen (d) is very pofitive in this Matter :, and in one Place (e) accuies his great Mafter Hippocrates with neglecting too much the Confequence of a bad Diet, and afcribing fome Miichiefs arifing from thence to a bad Air. And upon this is grounded the common Opinion of a Plague's following a Famine :, in which Circumftances, the poor- er fort, who feed meaner!:, generally iufFer moft, as it frequently happens in long Sieges, and Armies ill fuppiied with Provifions. Thus Tra* (a) Dc Bello Judaico, Lib. 7. Cap. 26, (b) De BelJo Civilly Lib. 2. (c) Lib. 6. Obfer. 9, 2nd 26. (d) Lib. 1. de differ. Feb. Cap. 3. & decibis mali. & boni fucci. (e) Comment, in lib. denstaliwn, t->r..i
