tl An Hiftorical Account wicked Importers ^ for all Events contra- dialed their Pretenffons, and hardly a Per^ fon efcaped that trufted to their Delusions : Their Medicines were more fatal than the Plague, and added to the Numbers of the Dead : But thefe Blowers of the Pefti- lential Flames were caught in the common Ruin, and by their Death in feme Mea- ftire excufed the Neglett of the Magi- stracy, in fuffering their Practice. Nee Lex eft jufiior ulla Quam necis Artifices Arte ferire fua.
- ABOUT this Time a Perfon of Di-
ftinclion and great Humanity, going to France upon fome Affairs of State, heard that fome Frenchmen were Matters of an Anti-peflilential Remedy, and took Care to fend fome Dofes of it over here : By Command of the Government we were ordered to try it with due Caution, which we did, with Expectations of uncommon Succefs, but the Mountain brought forth Death - 7 for the Medicine, which was a Mineral Preparation, threw the Patients into their laft Sleep. May it never hereafter be injoined to try Experiments with unknown and foreign Medicines, upon the Lives even of
