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though thofe Foreign Authorities, I before mentioned, 
might be looked upon as fufficient toconvince any one, 
how our Anceftors blended thefe two Difeafes together : 
\et ffiaii l pur Cue my deiTgned Method, and prove 
irom our own Writers, long before thofe, that altho* 
the Pox was not only among us, but in diftant Na- 
tions anciently confounded with the Leprofy; yet fo 
exad: were our Writers in their Obfervacions of the 
Infectious Nature of one Species of that Difeafe, and 
deicribing the Symptoms, as was fufficient to lead any 
I’erion to the diflingui filing between them, io as to 
leparate one Difeafe from the other. 1 ffiall there- 
fore firft enquire into the manner how the Leprofy 
was fometimes faid to be gotten in thofe early times, 
and then examine the Symptoms of the Difeafe, that 
attacked the Patient. John Gadijdcn a very learned 
and famous Englijh Phyiician, who fiouriffied about 
the Year 1540, in an excellent Work of his, he en- 
titles Rcfa Anglica , fpeaking de infeBione ex coitu Le~ 
frefj, vel LeprcJ <e, fays as follows, Frimo noiandum quod 
tile qui timet de excoriation dr arjura Firga pofl coitum 
ft Aim la vet Fir gam cum aqua mixta aceto , vel cum *- 
f ina propria & nihil mall habebit ; and in another place 
fpeaking, de Ulcere Firga, he fays, fed ft quis vuit 
membrum ab omni corruption fervare, cum a Muliere 
recedit , quam forte habet (ujpetfam de immunditie , Lvet 
illud cum aqua frigida mixta cum aceto , vel ur'tna pro- 
pria intra vel extra prtputium, He likewife fpeaking 
(fill of the Leprofy recommends a Deco&ion of Plan- 
tain and Rofes in Wine, to be made ufe of by the 
Woman, immediately after the Venereal Encounter ; upon 
which he tells us (he will be fecure. From hence it 
is evident fome of their Leprous Women (as they call’d 
them) were capable of communicating an infe&ious 
Malady to thofe that had carnal converfation with 
* 1 them. 
