of peflilential Vifeafes. 27 alfo, in his Relation of the Plague at Athens^ intimates, That it was brought from lome Part of Ethiopia by the like Means. And Pro/per Alpinus (a), before mentioned, feems to lay the greateft Strefs for the Frequency of the Plague at Grand Cairo, to the Traffick with thofe Countries as are hardly ever free from Tefiilential Difeafes. A great many Phy- iicians have charged the Plague in Sixteen hundred and iixty three at Arnfierdam, to the Infection of fome Peflilential Miafms which were tranfported from Smyrna and Algiers, then much infeclred with fuch Difeafes, with fbme Merchandize ^ by which Means like wife it was conjectured foon afterwards to reach London, and feveral other Parts of England, as it appears from the Account of Dr. Hodges (b). To this Purpofe I remember to have read a ftrange Story, fomewhere in Bakers Chronicle, of a great Rot amongft Sheep, which was not quite rooted out un- til about Fourteen Years Time, that was brought into England by a Sheep bought for its uncommon Largenefs, in a Country then infecled with the fame Diftemper: And upon this Account it is that the Prudence of {a) De Medic. Egypt. (b) De Pefte.
