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fcale throughout fca.iety ;_ and this fyftem has effected what 
waarantines, peft-houfes, &c. in vain attempted. toaccomplith. 
d,. from’ the pinks ener exiltence of the plague in London 
duriug the 17th century, it can fearcely be fuppofed’ to 
have been imported at the particular periods when it eater 
fo deftruGiv vely 5 3 and, on} the other hand, our quarantine 
¢ be; are by no means 
(See Howard 
ay haga ; Heberden on = e, &e. of Difeafes. ) 
e laft mentioned author 
S55 
pear wget ible e, that if its origin were devive from foe 
contagion, at lealt its pr epagmen ought, 1 in a great meafure, 
ty be attributed to fome predifpofit ion of the town in. thofe 
days, bets has fince been correéted.”” 
ancient mode of preventin 
comagiaus difeafes, was the feclufion of thofe already in- 
fecte nd labourin under the difeafes, from the reft of the 
s the prine 
to aes e epidemics wh snce the inftitution of lazarettos, 
pelt-lioufes and more lately of ale gees or m hatin 
Wives, : as ites have been called, wi o the 
Prevention of common typhus, or contagious feve ever, Me is 
be see that a vigorous activity of the police, in difcovering. 
d clearing the houfes firit infected by the plague, by 
mmoelsy: the fick to- a peft-houfe, might fupprefs. a nafcent 
peftilence ; but when we refle& on the total oe pe we of 
fach eftabli fhments’ hitherto ufed' (as in’ the: la 
eco for the ay preifioks 
Faria danlay a Aealon of een Me health, ¥ ear to 
be; andchave a@ually been fouad to be, moft Bie Read means 
of preferving the public from the influence of moe nt fe- 
vers, By being conftantl 
extinguifhing, in x hee the firt germ of con 
Woriginates, and ree of its gen¢ration, the 
coer piempee of feos f 2 may sere be’ ef- 
foo _ Preven is nature bani 
rom fociety. » Such ae he fs sails of thofe inftitutions, 
hitherto. eftablithed in ous citié En and 
ee if a in the higheft degree; See 
difeates; 8: which: the'public’ 
urity are-tot” fo much within our 
phat mont , indeed, 
09, 
ng the progrefs of inifaban trade, 
t 
eat der the name of Tysux, and the Latins mane - 
and whic ia fi 
via’ front the* 
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eareléffnefs, or mifinformation, have led te negle&t the’ om 
ployment of the preventive, fince it- has been an artificial 
fource of agen contagion ; we mean inoculation. Simi 
sligen ce, or mittakeen arathe continue to be 
gi 
has eltablifhed the efficacy of the invaluable. yy a of Dn 
Jenner, the Cow-rock, in fuperfeding me ge of fall 
pox, while i it does not contribute to -gen 
which may injure he he alth of others. "When ¢ refe” u 
age —— and —- of men neceflarily expofe 
them to various’ caufes of difea 
raat affecting a man’s’ hedlth, confidered ina egal view, 
are thofe in inter zd unwholefome dopa of oe 
there is a remedy in d 
upon the cafe. 
le of d 
me R) 
of a Jew, under pain of amercement for ci bali offence, 
pillory for the fe , fine and imprifonment for the third, 
and abjuration of the tovihs for the fourth ; — by itat. 12 
Car. Li. cap. a any brewing or ner eae a wine ig 
punifhable with the forfeiture of 100 whole- 
fale merchant, and 4o/. if done by re ae or cage 
See PLacue and QUARANTAIN 
The ancients perionitied, aaled even deified, health, ov; ra- 
ther, they erected’ a goddefs, to whom they fuppofed. the 
care of health to belong. ‘he Grecks worth; pped her woe 
of- Salus. 
at Rome. ons Quiri+ 
The place of her worfhip > was on 
| nalis,. =a fhe had a temple, anda flatue pati with me- 
ent’ dicinal her 
We frequently find the om Health. on the reverfe of 
medals. She is reprefented crowned» with laitrel, with a 
ferpent ftretched on her left arm, and —— seg veige 
with the ri Sometimes fhe hasan altar before hers with 
a ferpent twitted round the fame, andaing its head-to take 
its 
The inferi cet = SAL. A 
HEAL HY Cove; in Geral a bay on on tlie 8. coalt 
of the ifland: of Teawnee N. lat. 17’ 44! 
{A4.M; in beatts, denotes the fame with. ofordirik x in 
cinta 
Mido owe penny-royal,, winter Savory, and common here- 
nd, boiled in white-wine,. and se, aca a nyré, are 
psapchigoe tovexpel the heam. ittany, applied in & 
: sapet expels the a as well as the dead-foal; to-alfo-do. 
favin, ange! 
in Gari a town-of gad fituated-on a 
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ver where the French 
ee sethetrefidente: 
HEARGUET, a town of Candahar 5 
eather; 
a factory 5 ve miled’W. off 
Lion elect fenfes. 
Ghizni. | 
HEARING; Aworrio the a& or faculty of perceiving, 
nde; * is reckoned?-amo >, 
