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€th fo much encouragement for the profeeution thereof, tbat he little 
douks,but that about the eed of this prefent Year he fliall have finifli't 
in the fame Prefs, where this beginning was made, at ieaft five 0^ lis; 
Se^hns mort^ which fliall be, 
I, Leguminti & Tr if olid, 
%. Fr omenta & Gramint*. 
3. Flam<eSullau , Uaefimes & fapf&f^ UBefcenPes & non^apfof^ >^ 
f^^ppdfs dr ndn UUefcentes, 
5» CQrymbifer<&, < 
6. Galeau & VertlclUmiz, 
IL AOlMOAon'A, five PESTIS nufera loniini grapms Narmn 
Htfiorka,Amk Nathan.' Hodges M.D. &c\ 
He Author of this Book, having kepthis ftation as Phyfman m 
1 theCityof ioWo;? during the lait Plague, makech it his buhnefs 
to give us here an Hiflorical Account of what he then obferved and 
pradifed in this fatal Diftemper which he doth in 8 Sedions. 
In the i^/>/ hedeclareth the Original and Progrefs of this Lonion* 
In the Second he delivers his Opinion about the principal Canfe of 
the Peftilence in general which he conceivcthto be a very fubtile 
Nitrous Spirit, breathed out of the Earth into the Air, and by the. 
Air conveyed into our Bodies, and thence by contagious fleams dif- 
fufed and communicated to others. Wherche alfo difcourfcs of the 
noxioafnefs of eating tlie flefh of Cattle that dyed of themfelves, a^. 
caufing a great Cachexy in the body of man, and exceedingly dif- 
pofing it to take the Plague : adding withall the difference, there is 
between the Contagion in Cattle from that in Men which he makcth 
to be not in kind, but in degree only. 
In the third he cxarains the primary Seat of the Plague, and efteems 
that to be the Spirits, whence 'tis tranfmitted into the Body and Fif-^ 
€era, infeded by their influx. 
In iht fourth he confiders the Affinity between the Plague and Seor- 
and faiths tSiat thefe two do frequently coalefce into one, be- 
caufe of their agreement in a Salin principle* Where he alfo takes no- 
tice of divers odd inftances of difeafes,as the Confttmption and th^Kings 
^?^/7/,which upon thePlague fupervening were cured, the perfons fur*-^ 
viving- As alfo of fome P^-^^^riV^/ people, that happening to be feized 
ty the Plague, loft the Gout,and recoverM of the Plaguetoo. 
Intht fifths hedifcourfes of the manifeft figns of the Plague, as 
well of thofe of its firftlnvafion, astho'fe that immediately enfue up- 
on the fame ^ among which he reckons a Fever as a common, yet not 
infeparable fign V ^ palpitation of the Heart (which he hath obfer- 
ved to be fometimes fo ftrong and loud, that it may be heard at a 
confiderable diftance : ) item Blains, Bubo's, Carbuncles, Tokens, 
&c. Where he animadverteth upon the opinion of Dodor i)/V;?^^r- 
hook^m^oning^ that are produced by an occurfion of a falin, 
