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 and a Contagion. 61 yet went no further than that Family, but expired with them. DURING the late Plague likewife at London, a Citizen travelling into the Coun- try, found his Horfe of a fudden to tire and fall down, whereupon he opened his Mouth to find out if poilible the Caufe of fo fudden a Change ; when the good Man, Upon Receipt of the Horfe's Breath upon him, immediately grew fick, and died in two Days Time. BUT thefe and the like Inftances cer- tainly tend to prove no more than that there may be Constitutions and malignant Steams, which, by agitating the Mafs of Humours, may excite putrid and irregular Orgafiiis, wherein the juices and Animal Fluids, according to the Quantity and Pre- valency of the Diftemperature, and the Variety of the infufed Taint, with the Diverfity of Putrefaction, goes into Corru-. ption j but the forementioned Transplan- tation of the Plague does not happen but where there is a fuitable Predifpofition of Humours to admit it, as its Caule is not general. MORE-