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- rating in our Bodies, clearly fliew that their Caufes can- 
not be afcribed only to the fenfible alterations of the 
Weather, or the manifeft qualities of Heat, Cold, Moi- 
fture, or Drynefs highly predominant in the Air, ac- 
cording to the Vulgar Solution of them, but that they 
proceed from fomething more nice and latent than all 
this. 
But to return to our general Cold, it was not only 
P.emarkabie for the great Numbers it affecaed in this 
Kingdom, but likewife for its vaft extent eifewhere , 
fpreading it felf all over England in the fame manner 
it did here, particularly it leized them at London and 
Oxford 2l% univerfally, and with the fame Symptoms as 
it feized us in Duh/in; but with this obfervable diffe- 
rence, that it appeared three or four Weeks fooner in 
London^ that is, about the beginning of Offokr, than it 
did in Dul/in, where 'twas not the leaft taken notice of 
till about the beginning of Novemierj as I before men- 
tioned. 
Nor was its Progrefs,as I am credibly informedjbound- 
ed by thefe Wands, for it fpread it felf ftill further, and 
reached the Continent, where it infefted the Northern 
Parts of France, as about Paris, Flanders, Holland, and 
the reft of the Vnked Provinces, with more violence , 
and no lefs frequency than it did in thefe Countries ; fo 
that for its being fo general inafTeiting fuch great Num- 
bers in proportion to the few that eftaped it, and taking 
fo vaft a fcope in its extent, I believe no Epidemick 
Diftemper can compare with it ; Peftilential Fevers and 
the Plague are commonly the moft fpreading Difeafes, 
yet we find by their Hiftories the Infeftion of 'em ufu- 
ally limited within much narrower compafs than this 
bad, as if the fame Providence had put Bounds to the 
raging of thefe deadly Diftempers, as it has done to the 
Sea ; for were they as univerfal and difTufive of them- 
felves as thefe (lighter Diieafes are, they would entirely 
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