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 The Proof of which, manifests its self according to the Temper of Climates: When we consider how the hot and dry Seasons in Ægypt and Turkey, exerts its Fury in this Pestilential Venom, and that by the Variation of Degrees in our more moderate Climates in Europe, these endemial Mischiefs turn only to what we call the Small-Pox, and Measles, by infecting some Part of the Humours, whose Turgescency growing troublesome to Nature, is driven out to the Surface of the Skin, without great Hazard of Life, if fit Remedies are timely applied.

For further lllustration hereof, it may be observed, that if the Vicidity of Poyson will lye hid for a long Time in the Body, before it exerts its Force: And as so much is evident, from that famous prepared Powder, called La Pouder de Succession of Madam Brunvillier's, with which she, Madam de Voisin, and others of their Accomplices, poisoned formerly so many Persons in France, to any limited Time, (not exceeding Five Years) before it would show its Spite: Why might not therefore these maternal Impurities lie lurking the same in the Blood and Juices, under a Putrefactive Vicidity for Years, before it manifests its Contagious Venom.

This Novelty in Opinion of our Author's, which he seems to erect upon a rational Foundation, may possibly, at first Sight, Rh