and a Contagion. 6j Bifcovery with the Help of the beft GlaffeSj nor ever found the fame difcovered by any other; but perhaps in our cloudy Ifland we are not fo marp-fighted as in the fe- rene Air of Italy - 7 and with Submifilon to fo great a Name, it feems to me very difconfonant to Reafon, that fuch a pefci- lential Scmimum, which is both of a nitrous and poilbnous Nature, mould produce a living Creature; AS in putrid Fevers, fo in a PefKlence, Malignity is a Deitroyer of Infers, and frightens them away as it were alive, fo far is it from giving Birth to them ^ in- deed in fome malignant Ulcers and Can-> cers, and in the Blood of fome People- fome times animalcula are found ; but this is rather to be looked upon as the EfFeft of fome Fault in the nutritious Juice, than the Produce of any Poifon ; and therefore they are not to be accounted amongft the Caufes of a Pefdlence. SECTION
