concerning the manner how it is possible a Man should be infected by a _Leprous-Woman_; where if we allow him to call the _Malignant Matter_, which is lodged in the _Vagina_ [_the Womans seed_] we shall find he acurately describes the very first _Venereal-Infection_, by part of the virulent Matters being received into the _Urethra_; from whence by the Communication of the _Veins_ and _Arteries_, it is conveyed into the whole Body, after which (_says he_) ensues its total Corruption. Let us now examine the Symptoms of one sort of their Leprosy, for it must be necessarily divided into different Species, when another Distemper was blended with it, in which we observe such a _diversity_ of _appearances_; and this I shall the rather do in this Place, because it will furnish us with the next Succession of Symptoms after those already mentioned, as the _Venereal-Ozænas_, the Ulcers of the Throat, the Hoarsness, the proof of its being communicable from the Nurse to the Child, by _Hereditary-succession, &c._ All which we find to be true in the _Venereal-Disease_ at this Day. Our Country-Man _Bartholomew Glanvile_, who flourished about 1360, in his Book _de Proprietatibus Rerum_, translated by _John Trevisa_ Vicar of _Barkley_ in 1398, tells _us, some_ Leprous-Persons _have redde Pymples and Whelkes in the Face, out of whom oftene runne Blood and Matter: In such the Noses swellen and ben grete, the virtue of smellynge falyth, and the Brethe stynkyth ryght fowle_. In another place he speaks of _unclene spotyd glemy and quyttery, the Nose-thrilles ben stopyl, the wason of the Voys is rough, and the Voys is horse and the Heere falls_. Among the Causes of this sort of _Leprosy_, he reckons lying in the Sheets after them, easing Nature after them; and others which the first Writers on the _Pox_ looked upon to be capable of communicating that Contagion: Also, _says he, it comyth of fleshly lykeng by a Woman, after that a_ Leprous-Man _hathe laye by her; also it comyth of Fader and Moder; ann so thys Contagyon passyth into the Chylde as it ware by Lawe of Herytage. And also when a Chylde is fedde wyth corrupt Mylke of a Leprous Nouryce._ He adds, _by what ever Cause it comes, you are not to hope for Cure if it be confyrmyd; but it may be somewhat hidde and lett that it distroye so soone._ Thus we see how our Author, under the Name of _one_ Species of the _Leprosy_, gives a Summary of the Symptoms of the _Pox_, and the several ways whereby it is at this time communicated. Now when these _two_ Diseases were anciently blended together, and passed under the Name of the _Leprosy_ only, it must be the real Cause why that _Disease_ seemed to be so _rife_ formerly; for _two_ Distempers passing under _one_ Name must necessarily make it more taken notice of and much more frequent; not but that much the greater Number of those who were formerly said to be _Leprous_ were really _Venereal_, seems to be very evident; for since that _Disease_