thiop. lib. i. c. 13. et D. August. De
civitat. Dei, lib. iii. c. ult.

[44] Vid. Ludolf. Histor. AEthiop. lib. i. c. 5. et Comment.

[45] J. Leo Hist. Afric. lib. i.

[46] Lib. vi. v 1100.

[47] Rhas. et Avicen.

[48] Essay on Poysons, p. 178.

[49] Cicero de Nat. Deor. lib. i. Sec. 36. speaking of these Birds, says:
_Avertunt Pestem ab Aegypto, cum volucres angues ex vastitate Libyae
vento Africo invectas interficiunt atque consumunt; ex quo fit ut illae
nec morsu vivae noceant, nec odore mortuae._

[50] Newton's Optics, Qu. 18 to 24.

[51] Gastaldi, De Peste, p. 116.

[52] Journal de ce qui s'est passe a Marseilles, _etc._

[53] Vid. The London Gazette, July 23, 1743.

[54] Kircher, Langius, _&c._

[55] Toulon, Traite de la Peste.

[56] _Hippocr._ Epid. l. iii. That _Hippocrates_ describes here the
Constitution of Air accompanying the true _Plague_, contrary to what
some have thought, _Galen_ testifies in his Comment upon this Place, in
libr. De Temper. l. i. c. 4. and in lib. De differentiis Febr. lib. i.
c. 4.

[57] Vid. _Mercurial._ Praelect. De Pestilent.

[58] Notitia Eccles. Diniensis.

[59] Histor. lib. lxii.

[60] Sydenham De Peste.

[61] Vid. Caium, De Febr. Ephemer. Britan. and Lord _Bacon_'s History of
_Henry_ VII.

[62] Pag. 162. Edit. Lovan.

[63] Vid. Rondinelli Contagio in Firenze, et Summonte Histor. di Napoli.

[64] Lord _Herbert_'s History of _Henry_ VIII.

[65] Thuani Histor. lib. 5.

[66] Lord _Verulam_'s History of _Henry_ VII.

[67] Vide Sydenham, De Peste, An. 1665.

[68] Boccaccio Decameron. Giornat. prim.

[69] De Contagione, l. iii. c. 7.

[70] Observat. l. vi. Schol. ad Observ. 22.

[71] Diemerbroeck, De Peste, l. 1. c. 4.

[72] Memorials presented by the Deputies of the Council of Trade, in
_France_, to the Royal Council, Pag. 44 and 45.

[73] Alex. Benedict. De Peste, cap. 3.

[74] In a Paper of Advice against the _Plague_, laid before the King and
Council by Sir _Theod. Mayerne_ in the Year 1631. _MS._

[75] Hodges, De Peste.

[76] Vid. _Directions for the Cure of the_ Plague _by the_ College _of_
Physicians; _and Orders by the_ Lord Mayor _and_ Aldermen _of_ London,
_published_ 1665.

[77] Vid. a Journal of the Plague in 1665. by a Citizen. London, 1722.

[78] Discourse upon the Air, by _Tho. Cock_.

[79] Vid. The shutting up Houses soberly debated, _Anno_ 1665.

[80] Muratori governo della Peste, lib. I. c. 5.

[81] Cardin. Gastaldi,