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common at that time, from their Method of Treat- 
ment ; the Pox mud be unavoidable: That it had ex- 
actly the fame appearances it has now, although they 
were generally called by different Names, that the An- 
cients confounded it with the Leprofy ; that the vad 
Numbers of Leprous Perfons among us, before the 
Venereal Difeafe was feparated from it; and the final! 
Number we obferve at this Time, is a flagrant Proof 
of the former ; that in defcribing the Symptoms of 
the Leprofy, they give us thole of the Venereal Ma- 
lady; and, by mentioning how it is communicated, 
they defcribe the ways by which the Pox is gotten 
at this Day ; that fuch Remedies were by them re- 
commended to prevent the fird attack of the Lepro- 
fy, as are at this Time in Ufe to prevent the firfl 
Symptoms of the Pox ; and that the falling of the 
Nole, which has been look’d upon to be the mod 
remarkable Symptom of the Venereal Difeafe, was 
commonly obferved in what they called the Leprofy 
in former Ages. 
/ am, Sir, 
Tours &c, 
William Beckett. 
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