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prehenfions of the Leprofy, (that (hameful and nafty 
Diftemper) that to preferve themfelves from it, they 
made themfelves Eunuchs • Now it is highly proba- 
ble that thofe Perfons that fubmicted to fuch a pain* 
ful Operation, having before obferved, that thofe that 
gave themfelves up to a free and unreflrained ufe of 
Women, fell at length under fuch unhappy circum- 
ftances ; and fo found the only meafures to preferve 
themfelves from ir was to be difabled for fuch en- 
gagements, which fufficiently proves this Species of 
the Leprofy was Infe&ious; and for the reafons be- 
fore affigned could be no other than Venereal ; for how 
the true Leprofy fhould be prevented by fuch means 
will be, I believe, impoffible for any Perfon to de- 
termine. There yet remains one very confiderable 
Symptom of the Venereal Malady for me to take no- 
tice of, becaufe it is looked upon to be the mod re- 
markable in that Difeafe, which, is the falling of the 
Nofe ; but fince it has been already proved, that this 
Difeafe when it had arrived to fuch a pitch as to dif- 
cover it felf by thofe direful Symptoms as are the im- 
mediate forerunners of this, was by the Ancients con- 
founded with the Leprofy, and called by that Name, 
it mufl be among the Symptoms of that Difeafe we 
are the mofl likely to meet with it, if any fuch thing as 
the falling of the Nofe was known among them. 
Now the mofl likely Method of coming to a cer- 
tain Knowledge of the Infallible Symptoms of the Le- 
profy of the Ancients in its more confirmed State, is 
to confult the Examinations thofe unhappy Perlons 
were obliged to undergo, before they were debarred 
the Converfation of Human Society, and committed 
to clofe confinement : But this being a thing fome 
Ages fince laid afide, no Author that I know of ha- 
ving the particular Hiflory of it, and fomewhat of 
