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zan, in the army of the French in Naples, who had an 

 abfcefs in the mouth of the uterus, 



Gab.Fallopio, a celebrated Modenefe phyfician, affirms, 

 that the Spaniards, being few in number in the war of 

 Naples, and the French extremely numerous, one night 

 poifoned the water of the wells, of which their enemies 

 were to drink, and that from thence the diftemper arofe. 



Andrea Cefalpino, phyfician to Clement VIII. fays, 

 he knew from thofe who were prefent at the war of Na- 

 ples, when the French befieged Somma, a place of Ve- 

 fuvius, where there is a great abundance of excellent 

 Greek wine ; that the Spaniards efcaped one night in 

 fecret, leaving behind them a great quantity of that 

 wine, mixed with the blood of the fick of San Lazaro, 

 and that the French when they entered that place drank 

 of this wine, and foon after felt the effects of the vene- 

 real diforder. 



Leonardo Fioravanti, a learned Bolognefe phyfician, 

 fays in his work, entitled, Capricci Medicinally that he 

 was informed by the fon of one who had been futtler to 

 the army of Alfonfo, king of Naples, about the year 

 1456, that the army of the king, as well as the French, 

 becoming fhort of provifions from the length of the war, 

 the futtler fupplied them both with dreffed human flefli, 

 and that from thence fprung the French evil. The ce- 

 lebrated chancellor Bacon,, lord Verulam, adds (d), that 

 the flefh fupplied them, was of men killed in Barbary, 

 which they prepared like the tunny fiflb. 



As no body knew, nor could know, who was the firft 

 in Europe that fufFered that great evil, neither can we 

 know the caufe of it : but let us attend to what may 

 have happened. 



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(d) Sylva Sylvarum centur. 1. art. 26. 



