of the Vtague in <$ y &c. 19
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Temper et a Lachrymis i '-— Even the Relation of this Calamity melts me into Tears, although the worft was not yet certain, for the City was not yet drained by her Funerals •, nor the Difeafe as yet at all relaxed. ABOUT the Beginning of September^ the Difeafe was at the Height} in the Courfe of which Month, more than twelve Thoufand died in a Week : But at length, that nothing might go untried to divert the Contagion, it was ordered by the Governours, who were left to fuperintend thofe calamitous Affairs, (for the Court was then removed to Oxford) to burn Fires in the Streets for three Days toge- ther^ yet while this was in Debate, the Phyiicians concerned were diffident of the Succefs, as the Air in it lelf was un-in- fecied j and therefore rendred fuch a ihowy and expensive a Project fuperfluous, and of no Effeft - 7 and thefe Conjecfures .we fupported by the Authority of Anti- quity, and Hippocrates himfelf} notwith- Itanding which, the Fires were kindled in C 2 all
