and a Contagion, 59 could not but facilitate both the Infection and Progrefs of that fatal Deftroyer. T O this I do not deny, but that the common People, who fed upon fuch a Diet even to Gluttony, might treafure up Mat- ter enough for fb deadly an Irnpreilion, and with which the Plague might naturally enough go into a Co-operation •, but fuch Proviiion, although very much corrupt, and liable thereby to excite Symptoms like to thole in a Peitilence :, yet they were not in Plenty enough to fupply the whole Market • and therefore a Caufe fo private and par- ticular, could not be fuppofed to extend to fo univerfai an Eife£l. HEN-CE it is further manifeft, that a corrupt Diet can do no more in giving a peftilential Irnpreilion, than a good one can in removing it :, and therefore, not to dwell too long upon this Matter, it is my Opi- nion that fuch a Way of Living may raife the Humours to a Degree of Putrefa£tion 2 as brings Fevers very malignant, and caufes epidemical Difeaies, but not a true Peiti- lence. AND
