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_ Huet. De rebus ad eum pertinentibus, _pag._ 23. [3] Observations sur la Peste de Marseille, p. 38, 39, 40. [4] Ibid. _p._ 113. [5] _Vid._ Philos. Transactions No. 370. [6] Le Journal des Scavans, 1722. _pag._ 279. [7] _Vid._ Dissertation sur la Contagion de la Peste. A Toulouse 1724. [8] _Vid._ Mechanical Account of Poisons, _pag._ 24. [9] Vid. Philos. Trans. No. 372. [10] _Vid._ Lettre de Messieurs _Le Moine_ et _Bailly_. [11] Astruc, Dissertation sur la Contagion de la Peste. A Toulouse, 1724. 8o. [12] _Diemerbroek_ De Peste, _p._ 120. [13] In these Words, _Where it can be done_. [14] _Vid._ the _Gazettes_ of the Years 1665. _and_ 1666. [15] Celsus de Medic. in Praesat. Morbos ad iram deorum immortalium relatos esse, et ab iisdem opem posci solitam. [16] Libr. De morbo sacro; et libr. De aere, locis, et aquis. [17] Observat. et Reflex, touchant la Nature, etc. de la Peste de Marseilles, pag. 47. et suiv. [18] Journal de la Contagion a Marseilles, pag. 6. [19] Lib. 2. +Hoti heteros aph' heterou, therapeias anapimplamenoi, hosper ta probata ethneskon; kai ton pleiston phthoron touto enepoiei; eite gar me theloien dediotes allelois prosienai, apollunto eremoi, kai oikiai pollai ekenothesan aporia tou therapeusantos; eite prosioien, diephtheironto, kai malista hoi aretes ti metapoioumenoi.+ The beginning of this Passage, as it here stands, though it is found thus in all the Editions of _Thucydides_, is certainly faulty, +therapeias anapimplamenoi+ being no good Sense. The Sentence I shall presently cite from _Aristotle_ shews that this may be rectified only by removing the Comma after +heterou+, and placing it after +therapeias+, for +prosanapimplemi+ in _Aristotle_ absolutely used signifies _to infect_. With this Correction, the Sense of the Place will be as follows: _The People took Infection by their Attendance on each other, dying like Folds of Sheep. And this Effect of the Disease was the principal Cause of the great Mortality: for either the Sick were left destitute, their Friends fearing to approach them, by which means Multitudes of Families perished without Assistance; or they infected those who relieved them, and especially such, whom a Sense of Virtue and Honour obliged most to their Duty._ The Sense here ascribed to the word +anapimplemi+ is confirmed yet more fully by a Passage in _Livy_, where he describes the Infection attending a Plague or Camp Fever, which infest
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