40 The Caufes and Cure more rare, difiipate infenfibly, wichouc leaving any bad Effeft behind them - fo that without any Lofs of Strength, and without changing their manner of Living, thefe infefted Perfons went about the Streets and pubiick Places, only ufing themfelves a fimpie Piafter, or asking of the Phyficians and Surgeons fuch Remedies as are neceffary to thefe Sort u of fuppurating or fchirrous Tumours. > AKD thus >"we have a fuccind; View of the Sicknefs now in France, which is a Tcfttlence from Contagion: Becaufe then there is fuch a vail Difference between a JPxjrJence afiiing from ailignable Caufes in the Air, drc. and a F eft Hence from a Contagion , as to the prefervative Means efpecially againfl them • and that what we are now in moft Ap- prehenfion of, is of the latter Kind , it mofr. concerns us to s?be well acquainted with the Manner of Infection, as far as we can reafon about Agents fo extreamly minute and lubtJe. How all other Antecedents to a Fe ft Hence exert themfelves in their Influences over the animal O Economy, Bellini has brought even to a De- mo. iftration :, tho' indeed as to a Contagion, he is lb very fhort, that we may venture to infect it here, as introductory to the following Remarks. € AS
