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nua, the Gout of Milan, the Hemorrhoids of Venice, the Falling Sickness of Florence, the Feavers of Rome, and the Goistre of Piedmont.
Answer.For my part, when I am told, that there were in Plinies time, fourteen millions of men in Italy: when I read that there are now above three thousand Cities in Italy,Baltazar Bonifacius in hist. Ludicra l.13 c. 13. and most of them Cities of Garbo: when I meet with National Diseases in every other Country, as the Kings-Evil in Spain, the Pox in France, the Consumption in Portugal, the Cholick in England, the Dysentery in Gascony, the Head-ake in Tolouse, &c. when I reflect, how this Sun hath blessed Lombardy, and made Campania Happy: when I call to mind, that it hath filled the Cellars of Italy with above Thirty several sorts of Wines: when I remember, what health it hath powred into several herbs here, what admirable fruits it furnisheth the Markets withal, what ornaments it affords to Gods Houses, overcrust-ing
