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and Moders ; for b y any other of their Kynred they ought 
not to be Lazares, then ought ye to enquire yf he hath 
had the Company of any leprejs Woman, and yf any La- 
zare had medled with her afore him\ and lately becaufe 
of the infett matter and contagyous filth, that fhe had 
received of hym. Alfo his noflrills be wyde outward, nar* 
row within and gnawn. Alfo yf his lips and Gummes are 
foul flynking and coroded, Alfo yf his voice be horse, 
and as he fpeahth in the no ft. Now the Signs 
which are here mentioned, were looked upon to be 
Univocal: And thefe were they that made the Ex- 
aminers principally determine the Perfons to be Le- 
prous; but what Determinations any one would im- 
mediately give from filch Symptoms now, no Perfon 
is Purely ignorant of. But even thefe certain appea- 
rances would not always fatisfy fome Perlons, if we 
may believe Feelix Platenus in his Medicinal and Chi- 
rurgical Oblervations, Lib • 3. who tells us fome did 
not look upon them to be (o. till they had an hor- 
rible afped, were hoarfe, and Notes fell. Likewife in 
the Examen Leprojorum printed in the De Chirurgia 
Scriptores Optimi , the Author (peaking of the Signs of 
the Leprofy relating to the Nofe begins thus, Si nares 
exterias fecundum exteriorem partem ingroffentur , & in- 
terim conflringantur, & coartfentur . Secundo ji appareat 
cartilaginis in medio corrofio , et cafus ejus fignificat Le- 
pram incurabilem. And the before mentioned John Ga - 
difden in his Chapter de Lepra lays as follows, Signa 
confirmation's etiam incurabil.it er funt corrofio cartilaginis 
du£ eft inter foramina & cafus ejttfdem. Thus Sir have I 
proved we had a Diftemper among us fome hundreds 
of Years before the Venereal Difeafe is faid to have 
been known in Europe , which was called the Burning ; 
that this Burning was Infedious, and that it was the 
firfl; Degree of the Venereal Difeafe ; that this being 
common 
