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ctb fo much encouragement for the profecutlon thereof, that he little 
doubcs,but that about the end of this prefent Year he ftial] have finifn'c 
in the fame Prefs, where this beginning was made, at lead five or Ik 
Se^ions more, which fliall be, 
1. Legumina & TrifoiU. 
2. Frumenta & Gramina. 
3. Plant<t Stellate , Uliefcentes & pappoft ^ U^efcentes & non pappo/^ 
pappsfe & non UElefcmes. 
4.. Triqtietr^y bicApfuUres^ & mollientes. 
5» Corymhifera, 
6. Gale at a & VerticilUtde, 
II. AOIMOAOn'A, five PESTIS nuper^ Londini graffantis NarratU 
Htfi-orica.Amh. Nathan. Hodges M,D. &c, 
T"" He Author of this Book, having kept his flacion as Phyfitian in 
A the City of Zo;?^<5» during the la it Plague, maketh it his bufinefs 
to give us here an Hiftorical Account of what he then obfervedand 
pradifed in this fatal Diftemper • which he doth in 8 Sedions. 
In the Firfl: he deciareth the Original and Progrefs of this London- 
Plague, 
In the Second he delivers his Opinion about the principal Canfe of 
the Peftilcnce 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. Where he alfo difcourfes of the 
noxioufnefs of eating the fielli of Cattle that dyed of themfeives, as 
caufing a great Cachexy in the body of man, and exceedingly dif- 
pofjng it to take the Plague : adding withall the difference, there is 
between the Contagion in Cattle from that in Men which he maketh 
to be not in kind, but in degree i)nly. 
' In the third he examins the primary Seat of the Plague, and eftecms 
that to be the Spirits, whence 'tis tranfmitted into the Body and Vif-^ 
cera, infeded by their influx. 
In iht fourth he confiders the Affinity between the Plague and Seor- 
hutey and faith, that thefe two do frequently coalefce into one, be- 
cause of their agreement in a Salin principle* Where he alfo takes no- 
tice of divers odd inftances of difeafes,as the Confnmption and ihtKings 
£'z////,which upon thePiague fupervening were cured, the perfons fur* 
viving; As alfo of fome Podagrical people, that happening to be feized 
by the Plague, loft the Gout, and recover'd of the Plague too. 
In tht fifth, he difcourfes of the manifeft figns of the Plague, as 
well of thofe of its flrft Invafion, as thof^ that immediately enfue up- 
on the fame ; among which he reckons a Fever as a common, yet not 
infeparable fign ^ a palpitation of the Heart (which he hath obfcr- 
ved to be fometimes fo ftrong and loud, that it -may be heard at a 
confiderable diftance :) item Blains, Bubo's, Carbuncles,_T_0-keiis, 
&c. Where he animadverteth upon the opinion of Dodor i;i<f^^r- 
^rfi>£>;^„importing, that ^//^^'j are produced by an occurfionof a falin 
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