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poflible to be aligned, unlefs we allow according to 
the Proofs which I have already brought, that the 
Venereal Difeafe was fo blended with it, as to make 
up the Number of the difeafed. It feemsro have been 
the fame thing with them in France as with us : For 
the Author of the Hiftory of that Kingdom, which 
was lately published here in two Volumes in O&avo 
tells us that the Houfe of the Fathers of the Million of 
St. Lazarus, was formerly an Hofpital for Leprous 
People, but that Difeafe being ceafed in this Jaft Age 
(fince the Pox has been feparated from it) thefe 
Lazar Houfes have been converted to orher Ufes ; and it 
may not be perhaps foreign to my purpofe to take notice 
that the Writ de Leprofo amovendo contained in the 
Regifter of Writs was, (according to Coke upon Lit- 
He ton,) to prevent Leprous Perfons affociating them- 
felves with their Neighbours, who appear to be fo by 
their Voice and their Sores; and the Putrefadion of 
their Flefh ; and by the Smell of them. Well then, 
let us examine what Method was to be taken to 
prevent this noyfom and filthy Diftemper, the Leprc-- 
fy*, why truly that which would infallibly prevent 
their getting the Pox after the ufual Method, and that 
was Caftration. It is certain that Eunuchs are rarely or 
never troubled with the Leprofy, according to Mon- 
fienr le Prefire , a Councilor in the Parliament of Pa- 
ris, who has thefe Words ( a ) Antipat hi a veto Elephan 
tiafts veneno ref (lit : Mine Eunuchi ® quicunque funtr 
mollis , frigid* & effeminate nature nunquam aut raro Le- 
pra corripiuntur , & quidem quibus imminet Lepr<e pericu** 
lum de ccnfilio medicorum fibi virilia amputare per - 
mittitur . And Me^eray fays, he has read in the Life 
of Philip the Auguft, that fome Men had fuch Ap-- 
prehenfions 
(a) Centur, i Cap. 6. de feparatione ex caufa Luis Venerc®, 
