( lop ) 
which ihews it to be a cuticular Difeafe : In thefe 
Cafes upon Salivating the Patients, the Scales generally 
fall oil, the rednefs difappears, and the Cure fliall feem 
to be compleared ; but in a Month or two, the fame 
inconveniencies generally attend them as before. .Bur 
one ought not to conclude, that becaufe our Lcprcfy 
will but rarely be cured by Salivation, and the Pox 
generally will, that many of thofe Perfons the Ancients 
judged to be Leprous, were not really Venereal ; for 
their Leprofy, as they call’d it, was a quite different 
Difeafe from ours, Had there been any Proof brought 
that Perfons had been Salivated in their Lepro/y, and 
failed of Cure, it would have determin’d the Cafe ; 
but on the contrary, we are allured by the learned 
Dr. Pitcairn , in his Differtation concerning the Ingrefs 
of the Lues V enerea> That the Leprofy , before the Nea- 
politan Difeafe was talked of, was cured by Mercury , 
and now ffnce it changed its Name, it is no longer 
heard of. Thus we find that their Leprofy and our 
Venereal. Difeafe would be cured by the fame Method, 
but their Leprofy and ours, being abfolutely different 
Difeafes, we by no means ought to expedf the Succefs, 
from the fame prccefs of Cure, ihould be the fame! 
I dare be pofitive that no body ever obferved our Le- 
profy to be attended with falling of the Hair, hoarfnefs 
of the Voice, the Patient (peaking as though he fpoke 
through the Nofe, Confumption of the Flefh, Ulcers all 
over the Body, corruption of the flefhy Parts, and of 
the Bones themfelves, filthy Ulcers of the Throat, cor- 
rofion and falling of the Nofe, all which are reckon’d 
as Symptoms of their Leprofy ; on the contrary, ours is 
a mild and almofl inoffenfive Difeafe, which a Perfon 
may be afTe&ed with during his Life, and never become 
worfe5 whereas the other by difplaying it felf under 
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