REA 
fcale throughout fcaxi ) 3_and this fyftem has rab what 
cata peiiehow 
the plague 
might na edious ta 
which it was fuppofed to. be imported, it. mutt, I think, ap- 
pear pro tobable, that if its origin were derived from foreign 
contagion, at lealt its propagation ought, in a great m meafure, 
ty be attributed to fome pre edi {polition of the town in. thofe 
bis which has fince been correéted.”” 
The ancient mode of preventin 
contagious eet, was the feclufion o 
feted and be 
ie: is 
| n the total sneficieacy of 
eltablifhments: ao ufed' (as in’ the laft plague at 
» &c.), and on the probable origin of t ae epi- 
demic in: ‘the firft inftance, from filth, however propagated 
‘ we cannot afcertain any confident’ 
expedients. See PLacur. 
‘inititution of houfes of: recovery for the fuppreffion’ 
+ during a-feafon of comparative health, appear to 
bey and have a&tually been found’to be, moft beneficial means 
our quarantine this dire 
HEA 
earelé-fTnefs, or mifinformation, have led to mgled the’ ¢m= 
. ployment of the preventive, fince it- has been: an artificial 
fource of gees contagion ; we mean inoculation. Simi 
lar prejudice; negligence, or miltaken views, tee to’ be 
fatal to she: pallie health, by 1 Rite the p 
is dire contagion, even after am experience a4 nb vé years 
has eltablifhed: the efficacy of ‘abe invaluable. difcovery of Drs 
ne Cow-pock, in fuperfeding the influence of f{imall« 
pox, while it does not contribute to generate any contagiot 
which may injure the health of others. When thefe unfor- 
tunate errors im public opmion fhall be removed, and vacci- 
nation fhall be generally received, the public’ health will © 
have attained.a-degree of perfeétion-and eres beyond 
which, perhaps, it cannot be expeed to advance, while the 
ge 
s 
y patfions, wants, and occupations 6f men stdellents expole 
them to various caufes of difeafe. 
Injuries, affe&ting a man’s-health, confidered in-a kad vie iew; 
are thofe in which, fi wd unw nwholefome practices of another, 
he fultainsany-a damage i nm his vigour or con‘titution ¢ 
as by se: him mts proviso or wine, by the exereife of a 
e, or by 
of his phyla, pes, or agar h 
there is a 
upon the gale. 
th parc 
a Jew, under pain es meee for the firit offence, 
pillocy for the fecond, imprifonment for the third, 
and —— of the Mee the fourth ; and. by itat. 12 
Car. LL. cap. 25. any mee or adulteration of wine is 
punithsble with the forfeiture of: 100/. if done by the w 
fale merchant, and gol. if done by the vintner or niles: 
See PLaGuE and QuARANTAIN. : 
The ancients perionitied,. and even deified, health. 
der_ the name 
The place of ied worthip at ge ge was ont ‘ons 
nalis, . pe fhe had a temple, anda ftatue crowned with: mé- 
dicin 
We feceyitcntly find the goddefs Health. on the reverfe of 
medals. She is reprefented crowned» with laifrel, with a 
ferpent ftretched on her left arm, and-holding a patera to‘it 
with the right. metimes fhe hasan: slbua helet: nei 
a ferpen® twifted round the fame, and railing its Revita 
of prefervi tving the public from the influence of malignant fe- 
wr. By’ being eas on the watch, and i immediately fomething off fron it. 
extinguithing 7 in its: birth, th frit germ of contagion where The infcription is sat. AUG 
: originates, and put ifying | the fource of i its ess the’ HEALBHY Cove; 1 In’ OO nh on the 2; coalt 
— Prevalence: of infectious fevers may pe e ef of the ifland of Jamaica. N. lat. 17’ 44/. W. long. * 
paaeke prevented, and epidemics of this nature bani Ned — in beats, denotes the fame with afier-dirch 3 in 
tom fociety. * Such h hopes, the fuccefs of thofe inftitutions, wo 
— meget in the Argent cities of England and Thyme; penny-royal, winterfavoryy a -_ bagesnge here- 
helt d + See hound, boiled 1 in white-wine, and Oo a-nyré; are 
OWEFYs : efteemed- > toex the heam. og applied: ine 
sre Reser difeafés, by which the public health is’ Heap nia the ae as well as the dead-foal; to-alfo- do. 
=e orang and ‘fat tally: deftroyed, and which appear “HEAN, in favin, angelica. 
Hansa miafmata or in the rom the’ ery tama a town of Tonquin, fituated.on a 
taping: me in confined fituations, but ina fpecifie con- ri ee wa fea, = French 
ast i refidente: 
the means patches tps a ier nate 2 aguEr ss a town of Candahar 5 o> miles Ww. of 
fécurity are not Hi much Me fed 
haat soto 
of public 
reach, Fr. F, 
i fale two 
XRIN Avorn the 3& or fac of percei 
HE: S is: reckoned!-am ace 
omerve dif. 
“motions-of, 
