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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43015	A discourse of the plague containing the nature, causes, signs, and presages of the pestilence in general, together with the state of the present contagion : also most rational preservatives for families, and choice curative medicines both for rich and poor, with several waies for purifying the air in houses, streets, etc. / published for the benefit of this great city of London, and suburbs by Gideon Harvey.	Harvey, Gideon, 1640?-1700?	1665 (1665)	Wing H1062; ESTC R9710	14,104	31

stinks or rotten Bodies expiring into the air are returned by moderate Rains and so suckt in by the Earth likewise all filth and dirt thrown into standing Waters Pools Sinks Gutters or Ditches are also imbibed by the Earth or by its clammy mud and there coagulated into venene Miasms Whence its apparent that nastiness and filth of Kitchins and several nasty Trades as Tallow-Chandlers Butchers Poulterers Fishmongers Dyers c. neglect of cleansing Gutters Sinks or Ditches ●a●●ng the Streets burying the dead removing Carrions and dead Carcases are great occasions of a Plague Further observe that to the production of Pestilential atoms the concurrence of these conditions is requisite 1. That those Pestilential fumes be first embryonately or preparatively formed in a close thick or standing air that is not much ventilated and close places viz. by harbouring great quantities of stinks and corruptions and returning them to the earth or mud of standing Waters Ditches Gutters or dirt of the streets to be coagulated into venene fumes which stinks participating of a sulphurous inflamable nature do soon kindle and are converted into flaming atoms by being coagulated in close places as the pores of the earth or mud 2. A want of great showers of Rain which otherwise would prevent a Pestilence by washing away all stinks and mud clear the Gutters and Sinks cool the Earth and extinguish those late concepted venoms 3. Small Rains to open the pores of the Earth and to conveigh those corruptions in the air into her bosom 4. A dry and hot season following the moist whereby the mud of the earth is seared up and the foresaid malign coagulations are kindled into flaming atoms 5. The said Arsenical bodies being now coagulated and kindled into flaming atoms require either a very dry and warm or subtiliating air to melt and open the surface of the Earth for to disincarcerate the said venene bodies or to attract and evocate them thence Or smal Rains to unglue and relax the earth to give vent to the inflamed atoms 6. These expiring require a thick and dull air to support preserve and feed them otherwise if subtil and thin they would soon be amortised dissolved or expelled by the thin quick and moveable air But since Plagues oft reign in places where the air seems cleer and freed from all stinks or corruptions it s an argument there must be some other sort of pestiferous matter viz. Mineral arsenical fumes engendred within the bowels of the Earth for its probable the Earth being an universal Parent of various mixt bodies as Vegetables Stones and Minerals must necessarily abound with excrements that are sequestred from all those Bodies she concocts and remain unapt of being converted into them which she expels to the surface and thence into the air But if it happens the Pores of the surface should be constipated and occasion a preternatural retention of the said excrements probably the more sulphurous parts of them do putrefie and inflame in the same manner of retained excrementitious humours within the Microcosm and so assume a venene nature which expiring infect and venenate the air The Earth may also happen to be constipated upon great Frosts and so we see many Plagues derive their original from a rude Winter or by great Rains converting her surface into a tough thick mud Distinction V. How the said Venenosities cause the Plague THe said flaming Arsenical corpuscles floating in the air are attracted into the Body by Inspiration through the Lungs and Nostrils or otherwise they pierce through ones clothes and so penetrate into the pores of the intire Body The said Miasms entring the Body are not so Energick as to venenate the intire mass of blood in an instant for in that case no preservatives would avail and any Person that had but inspired the least breath of contagious air would be struck with death immediatly but by degrees gradually corrupting the blood and converting its parts into bodies of their own nature The blood being afterwards rendred so turgid with a daily access of new Pestilential atoms from without and increase of others within Nature finds her self incapable of resisting any longer and yields whereupon the concepted fiery atoms unite and excite a Pestilential fermentation the genuine cause of all those ensuing symptoms Vid. Venus Unmaskt Par. 81. Distinction VI. Whence the Durability and great Contagion of the Pest. VVE cannot rationally imagine that the Earth should be so turgid as to supply the air with such quantities of Pestilential fumes as to protract a Pestilence to a Year or two Wherefore it s very probable those flaming malignities obtain a power of kindling and converting other sulphurous exhalations the air is at such times fil'd with into Pestilent atoms you may read more of this in my Venereal Discovery Art 6. Par. 25. The cause of their duration we ascribe to their analogick animation and nutrition or attraction of fuel But upon this I have already discoursed at large in Venus Unmaskt Art 19. Par 95. Distinction VII Why are some Bodies more exposed to the Contagion than others BEcause of their passive disposition of Body and Humours to receive the Infection and of being vitiated by it to wit by foulness of their bodies abundance of bloud oppression of the Spirits aperture of their pores thinness of texture of body intemperance promiscuous converse with all sorts of people whence the contagion oft lights in Taverns Ale-houses c. Whence is it the Plague is so scattering at present Because Pestilent Seminaries chance to expire and be kindled in several places Distinction VIII Why doth the Plague haunt one place more than another BEcause one place is closer nastier and more putrid than others by being environed with ditches stincking gutters and sinks houses built upon a clay and foggy ground are more subject to conceive pestilent Seminaries Lastly some sorts of earth being more sulphurous than others are more disposed to expire venenous fumes Distinction IX How is the Pestilent Contagion propagated TWo waies Immediately by conversing with infected persons or Mediately by Pestilent Seminaries propagated through the air by continuation or by those dense bodies that easily incarcerate the infected air as woollen cloaths beds furniture in which the Contagion may be preserved several years as Fracastorius relates Distinction X. The state of this present Plague THis Contagion might have been presaged upon consideration of its precursors viz. a rude Winter want of great showers of rain a thick close sulphurous and fiery air stinks of ditches and neglect of cleansing the gutters sinks and paring the streets Whence we may collect this Pestilence derives from expiring Mineral and adventitious Arsenical exhalations The differences of Plagues are specified by the degree qualification or modus substantiae of the Pestilent Seminaries which according to their grosseness or subtility activity or hebetude cause more or less truculent plagues some partaking of such a pernicious degree of malignity that in the manner of a most presentaneous