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Obfervationis Me die ament or urn, qua hdc cetate in ufu 
funt , printed at London in i 588, in 8vo, mentions, 
that on the firft night of the appearance of the dif- 
feafe about fix hundred fell fick of it ; and that the 
next night an hundred more were feized in the villages 
near Oxford. Lord Bacon, in his Natural Hijlory , evi- 
dently refers to this, and one or two more instances 
of the fame kind, in the following paffage, Century 
X. N°. 914. “ The moft pernicious infedion next 
“ the plague is the fmell of the goal, where prifoners 
“ have been long and dole and naftily kept j where- 
“ of we have had in our time experience twice or 
“ thrice, when both the judges, that fat upon the 
t£ goal, and numbers of thofe, that attended the 
<c bulinefs, or were prefent, fickened upon it, and 
“ died. Therefore it were good wifdom, that in 
“ fuch cafes the goal were aired before they be 
<c brought forth.” We have likewife an account in 
Mr. Anthony Wood (4), that at the quarter- fefiion 
at Cambridge, in Lent in the year 1522, and the 
13th of the reign of Henry VIII. the juftices, gen- 
tlemen, and bailiffs, with moft of the perfons pre- 
fent, were feized with a difeale, which proved mor- 
tal to a confiderable number of them ; thofe, who 
efcaped, having been very dangeroully Tick. With 
regard to the unhappy inftance of the fame kind of 
contagion, which happened at the feffion in the Old 
Baily in May 1750, fee Dr. Pringle’s excellent work, 
intitled, Observations on the Difeafes oj the Army in 
Camp and in Garijon (5). 
(4) Hift, & Antiquit. Univerfit. Oxon. ubi fupra. 
(5) Page 290, 2d edit. 
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