We do not indeed find the _Disease_ mentioned by _Gascoigne_, was distinguish’d by any particular Name: But great Numbers must unavoidably die of the _Venereal-Malady_ at that time, from the imperfect Knowledge of those who had the Treatment of the first Degrees of it. It must necessarily follow, therefore, that when the whole Frame of the Body had receiv’d a Taint from the _Venereal-Poison_, so as to occasion its breaking-out in Scabs and Ulcers, almost all over its Surface, it must generally be called by the Name of some particular Disease, whose Appearances had somewhat of an Affinity to it. Now if we examine the Nature of all the Diseases, that attack the Human Body, we shall not find the _Venereal-Malady_, when it arrives at this State, to bear a greater Similitude to any than the Leprosy, as it is described by the Ancients: Nay, so great was the Analogy betwixt these Diseases supposed to be, that _Sebastianus Aquilanus_ has endeavoured to prove from _Galen_, _Avicen_, _Pliny_, &c. that the _Pox_ is only one Species of the _Leprosy_; and _Jacobus Cataneus_, a Writer almost as early as the Rise of the Name of the _Pox_, tells us, ’tis not only possible there may be a Transition from one of these Diseases into the other; but that he saw _two_ Persons in whom the _Pox_ was changed into the _Leprosy_: That is, from having great _Pocks_ or _Pustules_ on the Surface of their Bodies, from whence the _Pox_ is denominated, to have become Ulcerous or Scabby. This particular State of the Disease anciently put the Surgeons to a great deal of Trouble: For they finding that these Ulcers were of a very contumacious and rebellious Nature, were obliged to make use of great Numbers of Remedies, in order to conquer the evil Disposition of them. But they observed that all of them were useless, unless Mercury was joined with them. Now the dressing each particular Ulcer being so very tedious, they ordered the Patients to daub the Ointments over the Parts which were ulcerated; which done, they were wrapt in Linnen Cloths till the next dressing: But after a few Days they were extreamly surprised, to find their Mouths began to be sore, and that they spit very profusely; but they tell us to their Astonishment, that in a little time the Sores became healed, and the Patients cured. And by this Accident it was the Method of _Salivating_ by _Unction_ was first discover’d, which is in so much use among us at this Day. From these and some other Instances I have given of the Industry and Application of our Predecessors, and with what Sagacity they applied every accidental Hint, to the relieving their distressed Fellow-Creatures from the Misfortunes they laboured under; we ought to be led to the highest Esteem and Veneration of them; and so much the more most certainly forasmuch as they were principally our own Country-Men, who, I can prove, not only from several Persons coming from _Foreign-Parts_ to be cured of their Diseases _here_, but for