I AM particularly careful to destroy the _Clothes_ of the Sick, because they harbour the very _Quintessence_ of _Contagion_. A very ingenious Author[68], in his admirable Description of the _Plague_ at _Florence_ in the Year 1348, relates what himself saw: That two _Hogs_ finding in the Streets the _Rags_, which had been thrown out from off a poor Man dead of the Disease, after snuffling upon them, and tearing them with their Teeth, they fell into Convulsions, and dy'd in less than an Hour. The learned _Fracastorius_ acquaints us, that in his time, there being a _Plague_ in _Verona_, no less than twenty five Persons were successively kill'd by the Infection of one _Furr_ Garment[69]. And _Forestus_ gives a like Instance of seven Children, who dy'd by playing upon Clothes brought to _Alckmaer_ in _North-Holland_, from an infected House in _Zealand_[70]. The late Mr. _Williams_, Chaplain to Sir _Robert Sutton_, when Embassador at _Constantinople_, used to relate a Story of the same Nature told him by a _Bassa_: that in an Expedition this _Bassa_ made to the Frontiers of _Poland_, one of the _Janizaries_ under his Command dy'd of the _Plague_; whose Jacket, a very rich one, being bought by another _Janizary_, it was no sooner put on, but he also was taken sick and dy'd: and the same Misfortune befel five _Janizaries_ more, who afterwards wore it. This the _Bassa_ related to Mr. _Williams_, chiefly for the sake of this farther Circumstance, that the Incidents now mentioned prevailed upon him to order the burning of the Garment: designing by this Instance to let Mr. _Williams_ see there were _Turks_, who allowed themselves in so much Freedom of Thought, as not to pay that strict Regard to the _Mahometan_ Doctrine of Fatality, as the Vulgar among them do. IF there has been no Sickness in the Ship, I see no reason why the Men should perform _Quarantaine_. Instead of this, they may be washed, and their Clothes aired in the _Lazaretto_, as Goods, for one Week. BUT the greatest Danger is from such _Goods_, as are apt to retain Infection, such as _Cotton_, _Hemp_ and _Flax_, _Paper_ or _Books_, _Silk_ of all sorts, _Linen_, _Wool_, _Feathers_, _Hair_, and all kinds of _Skins_. The _Lazaretto_ for these should be at a Distance from that for the Men; and they must in convenient Warehouses be unpack'd, and exposed, as much as may be, to the fresh Air for forty Days.