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fore it is nede, that euery pacient prouyde to hym selfe a gode and expert Phisycion These thynges wryton before are the canses of Pestilence : But above these thynges .ii. questions be meoued. the fyrst is werfore one dyeth (and) another dyeth not in a towne where men be dede in one hous (and) in another house ther dyeth none. The second questyon is : whether Pestihence sores be contagious. To the firste questyon I saye it may happe to be of .ii. causes That is to say of that thyng that doth (and) of that thyng that suffreth An ensample of that thyng that doth, the Influence of the bodyes aboue, beholdeth that place or that place more than this place or this place And the pacient ys more disposed to dye than another : Therfore it is to be noted that bodyes be more hote disposed of oopyn poorys than bodyes infect hauyng the poores stopped with many humours where bodyes be of resolution or openīg as men which abusen them selfe with wymen or vsen often times bathis, or mē that be hote with labour or grete angre : they haue their bodyes more disposed to this grete seke-