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merce, which is the Soul of this and other trading 
Towns, obftru&ed. But in the mean time Care was 
taken to prevent, as much as poftible, the farther Pro- 
grefs of this Diftemper : The Streets, the Waters, and 
Houfes were order’d to be cleanfed from all manner of 
Filth and Naftinefs. 
On Sunday the i6th, The Governors of the Hofpital 
defired that I would e Phyfician in Ordinary to their 
Hofpital, or at leaft that I would give my Help and Af- 
fiftance at prefenr, by reafon of the many lick that were 
in the Hofpital, and which increafed daily. Next day 
I went to the Hofpital, and inquiring for the Su geon 
in Ordinary, I was informed that he died the Day be- 
fore 3 but they knew not of what Dife ie. In viewing 
the Patients, I found ten in a Room together, of various 
Ages, fome of which had Bubo’s, others Carbuncles, 
others Gangrenous Ulcers, which one cannot always 
judge to be PeftilentUI. In another Room there were 
above twenty Children, from fix to thirteen Years, all 
which, except four or five, had either Peftilential Bubo’s 
in the Groin, Armpits, and about the Neck, or elfe 
Carbuncles on the Arms, Thighs, Legs, and other parts 
of the Body. After I had perfectly informed my felf of 
the fiate of the Hofpital, I took my leave, having firft 
recommended to the Surgeon, that then anended, fuch 
ntcefifary MedicinesasI judged proper in rhefe Cafes to 
be given inwardly 3 the reft 1 left to his Care and Di- 
ligence 3 but I could not forbear telling him my Opinion, 
That tbefe were Symptoms, if not of a Plague already 
infinuated, yet at leaft of fomething but little inferior to 
it, and certain Forerunners of that deftruttive Diftem- 
per. Upon this I called to mind, wbat I had obferved 
in my Travels at Venice , in thofe that came from tbe 
Levant, and had performed their Quarentine, who had 
alfohad the Plague, of whieh there were ftill fome Re- 
mains upon them. But the Surgeon did not then think 
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