( 11 * ) 
rapt fooner : And alfo there is a great difference be- 
tween thofe that die in Battle, and thofe that die of 
the Plague $ the former being found Bodies $ but the 
latter infectious, and a meer Mafs of Corruption before 
they died, and muft confequently infedfc the Air more 
than the former* 
What l have faid concerning an infe&ed Air, is con- 
firmed by the Teftimony of all who have writ of the 
Plague by Experience $ and they have likewife obferved 
the Circumftances and Signs to be the fame as they ap- 
peared to us. Horatius Lumbifanus in his Treatife of 
the Plague, afierts, that there are only two Kinds of it, 
and that both of them proceed from the Air$ fot which 
he refers to the Authority and Confent of the Ancient 
Phylicians. Matthaus Ramdovius in his Speculum Peftis 
ferpolitum, pag. 9. likewife mentions impure, poifonous 
Air, which eafily receives Venom from one Man, and 
imparts it again to another: Not to mention others. 
But Paul Sorbait demonffrates this with lingular Inftances 
in his Difcourfe of the Plague at Vienna, Anno 1679. 
in which he fays, “ That a vaft Number of People, 
and I my felf, among the reft, have fometimes felt in 
“ the Groins and under the Arm-pits violent Pains, but 
<( without any Tumour, and thefe intermixt with Pal- 
cc pitations of the Heart 5 all which went off again in 
cc time. Thefe I think were certain Signs of an in- 
fected Air , only that it makes not fo great an Impreiiion 
upon fome as upon others. And in the fame Difcourfe 
(Queft. 51.J he again repeats his Opinion in thefe 
“ Words ^ u That fince the Air is infeCted, it may <ea- 
a lily affeft the forementioned parts of the Body, efpa- 
“ daily the Heart $ the Plague being often called Mor- 
“ bus Inquinalis. With him likewife agrees Andreas a 
Kdht in his Loiwographia, which contains many Things 
very remarkable. 
What 
