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them which proves, the Pudenda of the Women mud be 
difealed, for as much as we are abfolutely aftured In- 
fections of that Nature only happen when a found 
Part comes to an immediate Contact with a difeafed 
one 5 for the Symptoms always firft difplay themfelves 
in thofe Parts through which the Virulency is firft con- 
veyed* Now in a true Leprofy we never meet with 
the mention of any diforder in thofe Parts, which, if 
there be not, muft abfolutely fecure the Perfon from 
having that Difeafe communicated to him by coition 
with Leprous Women ; but it proves there was a 
Difeafe among them, which was not the Leprofy, al- 
though it went by that Name* and that this could 
be no other than Venereal becaufe it was infectious: 
for there is no other Difeafe that is capable of being 
communicated this way but the Venereal Difeafe, 
feeing the Pudenda are only in that Diftemper fo 
difeafed as to become capable of communicating their 
Contagion. I find the learned Gilbert us Anglicus who 
flourifhed about the Year 1360, reafoning concer- 
ning the manner how it is poftible a Man fhou'd be 
infeded by a Leprous Woman; where if we allow 
him to call the Malignant Matter, which, is lodged 
in the Vagina, \the Womans feed] we fliall find he 
accurately defcribes the very firft Venereal Infection, 
by part of the virulent Matters being received into 
the Urethra ; from whence by the Communication of 
the Veins and Arteries, it is conveyed into the whole 
Body, after which (fays he) enfues its total Corrup- 
tion. Let us now examine the Symptoms of one 
fort of their Leprofy, for it muft be neceflarily di- 
vided into different Species, when another Diftem- 
per was blended with it, in which we obferve fuch a 
diverfity of appearances ; and this I fhall the rather 
do in this Place, becaufe it will furnifh us with the 
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