lo An Hijlorical Account Side } as therefore it is not at all deemed cruel to take off a mortify'd Limb to fave the whole, by a Parity of Reafon is the Conduct of a Community juftifyable, who, out of a Regard to the Publick Good, put iiardihips upon particular Perfbns • in a peflilential Contagion therefore, what can be of more immediate Service than fecur- ing thofe that are well from the Infection ? And the more efpecially in a Difeafe that reaches not only the Body, but taints the very Breath for in this Cafe the infe&ed Breath poifons upon the healthful, and even at the Point of Death endeavour to dirTufe that Venom to others which con- quered them. From this delirious Pleafure arife thofe Tricks of tranfplanting the Corruption of a peflilential Tumour to another ; not to fay any Thing of that Woman, who by her Importunities drew her unhappy Husband into her Embraces, which ended his Life with hers. AGAIN, to take away all Doubtings in this Cafe, I am not ignorant of what Mo- ment it is, to ihut up the Houfes of all thofe who are infetted, according to Cuftom •, for by this means a Contagion may at fir ft be ftifled, which otherwife would go beyond any
