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 nes. To the second question I saye that Pestilence sores be contagious by cause of enfecte humours bodyes and the reek or smoke of suche sores is venemous and corrupteth the ayer And therfore it is to flee fro suche persons as be infect : In Pestilence time no body sholde stande in grete prece of people be cause sōme mā of them my be may be infect Therfore wyse phisicyens in visityng seke folke stande ferre fro the patient holdyng their face toward the doore or wyndowe And so sholde the seruaunts of seke folke stande. Also it is gode to a patient euery daye for to chaunge his chambre (and) often times, to haue the wyndowes opene ayenst the northe and eest and to spere the wyndowes ayenst the south For the south wynde hath .ii. causes of putrifaction The first is it maketh a man beyng hole or seke feble in their bodyes The second cause is as it is writon in the .iii. of Amphorismys the south wynde greuyth the beeryng (and) hurteth the herte by cause it openeth the poores of man (and) entreth into the herte wherfore it is gode to an hole man in tyme of Pestilence whan the wynde is in the south to bee