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| pce Plague is many tithes taken without manifert fenfes as hath been 
T faid; and they report, that where ic is found ic hath a fent of the {mel 
| ef aMellow Apple, and (asfome fay) of May-flowers : And itis allore | 
| ceived, thar (mells of Flowers that are Mellow and Lufhious, are ill for the 
| Plague; as White Lilies, Coyvflips, and Ayacinths, : 
The Plague is not ealily received by fuch ascontinually are aboutthem 
Jithat havethePlague, as Keepers of the Sick, and Phyficians ; nor again by 
| fuch astake Anrideres, citherinward (as CMithridate, Funiper-berries, Rue, Leaf, 
land Seed, cvc.), or outward (as Angelica, Zedoary, and the like in the Mouth; 
| Zar, Galbanum, andthe like in Perfume :) Nor again,’by old people, and {uch 
asare of adryand cold complexion, On the other fide, the Plague taketh 
| fuoneft hold of thofe that come out of afreth Air, ahd of rhofe that are faft- 
| ing, and of Childrens. and it is likewife nored to go in a Blood more then 
| toa ftranger. td Kat mors 3; 
|. >.» Themoft pernicious Infection, nextthe Plague, is the{mell of the Goal, 
| when-Prifoners have been long, and clofe, and naftily kept; whereof we 
| have had in onr time, experience twice orthrice, when both the Fudges that 
| fat upon the Goal, and numbers of thofethat attended the bnfinets,or were 
} prefent, fickned uponit, and died. Therefore it were good wifdom, that in 
| {ach cafes the Goal were aired before they be brought forth. 
4... Ost of queftion, if fuch foul fmells be made by Art, andby the Hand, 
| they confit chiefly of Mans flefh, or fweat, putrcfieds for they arenot thole 
| ftinks which the Noftrils ftraight abhor and, expel, that are moft pernicious, 
but fuch Airs ashave fomefimilieude with Mans body, and fo infinuace them- 
| felves, and berray the Spirits. Bhere may begreat danger inufing fuch Com- | 
poficions in great Meetings of People within Honfes; as in Churches, at eAlr- 
| raighments, at Plays and Solemnities, and thelike : For poyfoning of Airis no. 
| lets dangerous, then poyfoning of: Warer, which hath been ufed by the Zurks 
| inthe Wars, and was ufed by Emanuel Connenus towards the Chriftians, when 
| they paffed through his Countrey tothe Holy Land. And thefe empoyfon. 
| menis of Air are the more dangerous in Meetings of People, becaufe the 
much breath of People doth further the reception of the Infe@tion. And 
} chetefore when any fuch thing is feared, it were good thofe publick places 
| were perfumed before the Affemblies. . 
t The empoyfonment of particular perfons by Odors; hath been reported 
} to bein perfumed Gloves, or thelike. Anditislike they mingle the.poyfon | 
{that is deadly- with fome fmells that are fweet, which alfo maketh it 
ithe fooner received. Plagues alfo have been railed by Anointings of the 
| Chinks of Doors, and the likes not fo much by thecouch, as forthat icis 
fcommon for men, whenthey finde any thing wet upon their fingers, to 
putthem totheir Nofe s which men therefore fhould take heed how they 
}do. - Thebeftis,;tharthefe Compofitions of Infections Airs cannot be made 
{ without dangers of death to them that make them 3 but then again, they 
} may have fome wAntidotes to fave them(elvess fo’ thatmen ought nortobe 
[fecure of ity — ' a ONY | 
} -¢ > There have been indivers Countreys great Plagues by the putrefaction of 
} great {warms of Grasboppers and Locu/fs, when they have been dead and caft 
eo olt hapneth oft in Hines, that there are Damps which kill either by 
| Suffocation, or by the poyfonous nature of the (Minerals and thofe-that 
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