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raging at prefetit, not to be from the Seafon^ot tempe- 
rature of the^^^r, but from Infeili'on wholly 3 that alio 
heingSiVi Exotic Di/eafe oi the Oriental Vco^lty and not 
known to Europe^ or ^vtw Jfi a Mi 7ior^ ox Jfrica at all, 
tillaSpicq trade was opened the later Pr/wr^/ Egypt ^ 
to theremoteft partsofthe whence it origi- 
nally came, and where.it rages more cruelly at this day 
than with us. -ir» ; f - 
The likel thinkof theGn/?2;2^ofthe Guts, that it is a 
peculiar Dijeafe oi t\\Q Weft-Jndtes, and yearly received 
from thence, for this reafon, that is noneof theTorw^'w^^ 
Fentris of the Antients, and therefore called by a new 
name, by luch as have writ of it ; and alio for that it is 
yetfcarce known in any part of the North oi England^ 
or Midland Countries thereof 
So that we are not to Judg or Prognofticate of the Sa* 
lubrity or Jtcklinefs c>f a year, from forreign Difeafes, but 
by the raging of fuch as are iVi?^»r^/ to the men of our 
Climate. 
But e4ioi!gh of this, only this word to conclude, that 
if the moll Elegant and learned 'R^vinus be in the Right, 
which 1 (hall not here difpute, that fear is ever the prime 
caufeof the^/^^2/^ti 'tis fit to recommend its antidote ; 
which is chearfulnefs, and a reafonable fecurity 5 that 
we are in no fuch danger from any Intemperature of the 
neceflarily fubfequent to fo vehement a Froji. 
* Dr. Willis I^/yi-^/Wij! /^/^^ LondinenO?. 
"^xvmxis de Pefte -CdJitagium no7i e]i contagiuw-^ ^irfiaccedat terror -SavBo' 
teHor-i me nullum hucufqus >vtdif[e <egruT?i ex peft-Cj qui nm a terrore cam contraxjffe. 
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