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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47218	A brief treatise of the nature, causes, signes, preservation from, and cure of the pestilence collected by W. Kemp ...	Kemp, W. (William)	1665 (1665)	Wing K260; ESTC R6407	54,200	102

difficult for him to over-rule than to guide Arcturus and his Sons Iob 38. 31 32. Astra regunt homines sed regit astra Deus Secondly The Corruption of the Air may be caused not onely by the influence of the Stars but also by the Vapours and Exhalations that ascend from Pools and standing waters from Lakes that do not run from stinking sinks and ditches that are not cleansed as also from holes and caverns of the earth they which dig in cole-pits and work in mines oft-times to the damage of their health and hazard of their lives are made sensible of the effect of damps that thence arise Guainerius relates that upon the opening of a pit in Campania there rushed forth such a poisonous breath that presently kill'd the by-standers Physicians out of Iulius Capitolinus make mention of an exceeding old Chest which being found and opened in Babylon there began a most deadly Plague that reacht as far as Parthia And Ammianus Marcellinus relates that in the time of Marcus Verus the Emperor Apollo's Temple was sackt and his Image brought to Rome where some of the Souldiers of Avidius Crassus espied a little hole which afterward they opened and thereupon sallied out such a hurtful blast of Air that kindled a most grievous Pestilence The Air also may be corrupted by the Exhalations and Vapours that ascend out of the bowels of the Earth wherein are many poisonous Minerals upon the Eruption of Earthquakes after which as Histories report most grievous Plagues have followed Lastly The Air may be corrupted by the steams and fumes that arise from Carcases not at all buried or not buried deep enough or digged up to make room for others before they have been quite consumed I have read of a great Plague that hath begun upon the opening of a grave and one might guesse worse if he should conceive this to be one reason why the Parish of Saint Giles in the Fields should be more infected than other places and those that have ability and authority may do a worse deed than cause the Church-yard to be covered over with fresh earth Secondly The Plague may be caused by corrupt and superfluous humours which being bred by ill diet unhealthy food unwholesome meat and drink and being long detained in the body at last arrive to the highest degree of putrefaction and become venemous and pestilential Hence came the Proverb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 After Famine comes the Plague From this corruption of humours it is that especially Women and Children that are of a hot and moist temper and of a soft and tender constitution and the meaner sort of people that keep little or no order in diet and have small regard to preserve their health but having foul bodies and abounding with peccant humours become most subject to this pernicious disease from the danger whereof others that guide themselves more orderly for the most part live more secure Secondly As the Plague may be generated and bred by the corruption of the Air and putrefaction of the humours so is it often propagated by Infection whereby the like venemous disposition and diseased effect is produced in a healthy body wherewith that sickly person from whence it came was first afflicted and it is most powerful if it be received into such a body proportionable and of like constitution to that wherein it was formerly kindled whence Kinsfolks and those of the same bloud are soonest infected by one another The Turks are perswaded that every ones fate is written in his fore-head and hath a fatal destiny appointed by God which it is impossible for any to avoid so that they believe those that shall die by the Plague cannot be slain in War nor drown'd in Water and those that shall die in battel cannot be kill'd by the Plague by which credulity they slight and neglect all care of avoiding the infection conversing with one another and buying the goods out of infected houses and wearing the apparel of them that lately died I shall not trouble my self to confute this Opinion since at Grand Cayre and Constantinople there have been thousands that have suffered death and multitudes that have been executed by the Plague for this Heresie But would one think there should be any such in England that in opposition to the good Orders of the Magistrates and without any regard to their own safety or the lives of their Families their Children Neighbours Friends and Acquaintance and all with whom they have to do or come a-near should not refrain the Conversation of the Sick and coming into infected places when they have no necessary occasion that calls them thereunto I have seen some sit at the doors where the Houses have been shut up and have heard them speak I cannot say reason as if there were no such thing at all as that which people fear and call Infection they say the Scripture doth not say the Plague is infectious Why neither doth it say that Whoredome breeds the Pox. They will tell you they and many more have been with the sick and kept them company and eat and dranke and lay with them and yet themselves never ail'd any thing They may as well argue that many have had the Plague Botches Blains Carbuncles and the Tokens and recovered and therefore the Sicknesse is not mortal When a Phylosopher came to a Heathen Idols Temple one of the Priests shewed him a Table of the Names of such persons that in extremity of Tempests and other dangers made Vows to their deity and escaping Shipwrack came safe to Land but quoth the Philosopher Can you shew me how many made their Vows and yet perished I have observed that most of these people are extream ignorant and who so bold as Blind Bayard It would be no great difficulty to perswade an Indian that never saw a Gun shot off to stand before a Canons mouth when it is loaden and discharged Or else they have no good nature or kindness for Mankind Or else they are exceeding covetous or such as care not much to be rid of some of their Relations or else such as have had the Plague formerly or else they are middle-witted persons and diseased in the pate and are as fit for a Pest-House as a mad man is for Bethlem and the proper way to confute them is not with discourse or reason but with a Padlock and a Watch-man Are there not some diseases that are infectious Do not some sick bodies send out fumes and steams from them Is not the Plague as infectious as the Itch or Pox Doth not the apparel of several persons smell of such things as they daily use and handle in their Trade Things of a Homogeneous Nature contain their whole essence in a little quantity Every part of Quicksilver is Quicksilver the least drop of Oyl is Oil the least spark of Fire is Fire and if it meet with combustible matter what a flame will it soon beget and kindle Any one that shall consider what