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packed up or worn by infe&ed Perfons, or thofe 
that attended the Sick, or that came from infeCted 
Places. (4.) Unwholfome Diet, or corrupted pu- 
trefying Meats, abounding with too fubtilized, or 
too rarefied, volatile, urinous Salts. (5.) Mineral, 
arfenical, and poifonous Damps, Vapours, Exhala- 
tions, &c. arifing from Vulcano’s, Mines, Grot- 
to's, by means of fubterraneous Heats and Fer- 
mentations. 
XII. It were eafy, by natural Reafoning upon thefe 
Caufes afiign'd of the Plague, to fhew that Dif- 
tcmper confifts in a kind of putrefactive State of 
the Body, when the Salts are volatilized, un- 
fheath’d, and let loofe to tear and wound the 
Solids, after deftroying the Texture; and, confe- 
quently, that the volatile Acid, here fhewn to be 
eafily procurable, is a natural Remedy in fuch 
Cafes: But, being fenfible how fallible all fuch 
kind of Reafoning may be, I intirely fubmit the 
Whole to your maturer Judgments ; and remain. 
Gentlemen , 
Tour moft humble Servant, 
Ephraim Rinhold Seehh 
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