_Insects_ natural to them, the Bark and Wood
likewise have their respective Devourers; and those several _Insects_ have
other Kinds, which lay their Eggs, and feed upon them.

I could yet give a much larger Account of Animals and Plants, how they
have been particularly Infected, but I rather choose to refer my Reader to
the Chapter at large, of _Blights_ and _Plagues_, in my _New Improvements
of Planting and Gardening_, &c.

By the foregoing Accounts we may observe, that _Mankind_, _Quadrupedes_
and _Plants_ seem to be infected in the same manner, by unwholesome
_Insects_; only allowing this Difference, that the same _Insect_ which is
poisonous to Man, is not so to other Animals or Plants, and so on the
contrary; we observe likewise, that Pepper which is of Use to Mankind, is
poisonous to other Creatures, and tho' a Man cannot eat of the _Cicuta_,
or _Hemlock_, without prejudice, yet a _Cow_ and some other Animals will
eat it to their Advantage; and the _Manchanese_ Apple, which is deadly
Poison to almost every Creature, is eaten greedily by Goats, and which is
strange, the Milk of those Goats is wholesome to Mankind. Again, we may
remark that _Camphire_ which may be taken at the Mouth by the Human Race,
and is helpful in many Cases, will destroy _Insects_; for among the
Curious who have Cabinets of Rarities, it is a common Practice to lay it
in their Drawers and Cases, to destroy the smaller kind of _Insects_,
which would otherwise devour their Collections.

The Smoaking of Tobacco is helpful to some Constitutions, but was the pure
Leaf to be taken directly into the Stomach, it would Purge in a violent
Manner, and the Oil of it as I am told is a deadly Poison; however it is
to be remarked, that in the time of the last Plague in _London_, _Anno_
1665, that Distemper did not reach those who smoak'd Tobacco every Day,
but particularly it was judged the best to smoak in a Morning. We have an
Account of a famous Physician, who in the Pestilential time took every
Morning a Cordial to guard his Stomach, and after that a Pipe or two
before he went to visit his Patients; at the same time we are told, he had
an Issue in his Arm, by which, when it begun to smart, he knew he had
received some Infection, (as he says) and then had recourse to his Cordial
and his Pipe, by this means only he preserved himself, as several others
did at that time by the same Method. I suppose therefore, that the Smoak
of Tobacco is noxious to these Ven