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riod ©f this difeafe is generally coroprifed within the fpace of 
©neyear.But thrs F»j?»/^ hath hitherto yielded to no remedies 
neither in the beginning, midle, or dcclinaion, but hath ra- 
ther been exafperated by thero, though they were amdjna. It 
is wholly to be left to NaturCj andjif you do fo^there is uo paio 
or trouble in it* It takes people not once, but often, and it 
fcizeth on fevcral parts of the body 5 and if it do foon the 
face (as often it doth^ it caufes a remarquabJe fear , which yet 
by little and little vaniftieth* 
As to Feavers at and about -^^/efp^^^though they have the fatne 
Type ihtie in England yet there are two things peculiar in 
them. One is, that in Acute feavers. Gold fweat conicnonly 
fignifies recovery , but Hot fweat portends death. The other 
Isj that in fuch acute feavers even an intermitting pulfe de* 
nounces no danger. 
> Touching the Leprofy^ which anciently was fo frequent a 
malady in thefe Countreys, 'tis now Icarce to be found there, 
though at DamafcHs there is ftill an Hofpital ftandiag/ormcr- 
Jy built for the relief of pcrfons thus difeaied. 
As for the rcaCon, why the City of ConSiantinople is fo much 
inhpet to xht Pi ague jfomeare of opinion, that the multitude 
of Slaves, yearly brought by the Blach:Sea . zni their hard 
diet and ufage,bcgets this corruptioB ; Others judg, that the 
commonalty there, feeding for the grcateftpart of Summer on 
Cucumbers and Melons, and drinking water upon them, with- 
out the Ufe of helps to correft the crudities , fall into malig- 
nant and peftileotial feavers. But the Phyfitians generally 
conclude , That the Air of CanHantinopk is infefted by the 
North- Eaft-wifids, which blow commonly for 3 montb^begin. 
Biflg about the Summer-folftice arifing from UDwholefonie 
U^i^timranarymAMH^ and paffing over the i5/^4^ 
^e^, (a place known to abound with Fogs,) bring with theni 
certain difpofitions ceodieg to corruptions which working 
upon ^bodies already prepared by bad diet, may well 
be^iudged, to be the caufe of this diftetn^ 
^ Befidcs the other ufes of Opmm m Tm\v, 'tis common 
ig^ Afabtay %Q mx^ %^i^% with it of the Griping of the 
