1 6 The Caufes and Cure diffont Countries ; and fometimes not by Per- fons themfelves diftempered, but by tfee Conveyance of thefe Tefiilential Miafms 113 the^r Cloaths or Wares imported in the Way of Trade. Fracafkorius 3 (a) an eminent Italian Phyfician, tells- us, That in the Year Fifteen Hundred and Eleven, when the Germans were in PofTeilion of Verona, there arofe a deadly Difeafe amongft the Soldiers from the Wear- ing only a Coat purchafed for a fmall Value *, for it was obferved, that every Owner of it fbon fickened' and died until, at laft, the Gaufe was fo maniferUy from fome Infection in the Coat, that it was ordered to be burned. Ten Thou fa nd Perfbns, he fays, were computed to fall by this Plague be-? fore it ceafed. FROM the fame Caufe, that is, infe&ed Garments and Merchandize, Mercurial is. takes Notice of a Plague in his Time at Venice j and jipfianus Alexandrinus (h) afTures us, that the Celt a, after a Conqueft over the IRyriciy and in PoiTeffion of their Plunder, were inferred with a grievous Plague, which the Illy r id then laboured under. Thycididss alio, (a) De morbis contag. lib. 2. cap. 7. 0) De Bello Illyrico.
