( no ) 
the Symptoms before enumerated, brings the Patient to 
the mod miferable end ; befides this, their Difeafe was 
got by Coition as their Authors allure us, but in our 
Leprofy, a difeafed Husband may cohabit with his Wife 
as long as he lives, and he {hall never be able either 
by Coition, or the immediate contad of the difeafed 
Parts with thofe that are found, to communicate any 
Evil. Had what our PredecefTors called the Leprofy been 
the fame Difeafe we call by that Name now, they had 
not been fo folicitous of making fuch large Provifion 
for them, or lhutting them up from Humane Society ; 
for one of our Leprous Perlons might have been among 
them, and no body have known belaboured under any 
Infirmity at all. From hence it is evident the Difeaie 
fo common among them, was entirely different from 
our Leprcfy, the Appearances of which bear no manner 
of Analogy with the former: Tis from the Symptoms 
of the Difeafe, and the manner of its being received, 
that we generally know one Difeafe from another ; but 
the Symptoms of mod of their Leprous Perlons, and 
the manner whereby the Difeafe was gotten, will be 
found in no other Difeafe that attacks the humane 
Body, but in the Venereal Difeafe only ; for here they 
fo exadly agree, that we mud in a manner do violence 
to our own Reafon, if we deny them to be the fame. 
I proceed now to anfwer the fecond Objection, which 
indeed was long ago falfly aflerted by Dr. Fuller the 
Hidorian ; which is, that the Leprofy was brought 
into England from the Holy War, by fome of our 
Countrymen, and that the Difeafe was altogether un- 
known among us before. This, as I take it, does not 
fo immediately concern me, fince all I take upon me 
to prove is, that what They called the Leprofy , is not 
the fame Difeafe we call by that Name now, but 
another. 
