THE Advice to keep at a Distance from the _Sick_, is also to be understood of the _Dead Bodies_; which should be _buried_ at as great a Distance from Dwelling-Houses, as may be; put _deep_ in the Earth; and _covered_ with the exactest Care; but not with _Quick-Lime_ thrown in with them, as has been the Manner abroad: For I cannot but think that _This_, by _Fermenting_ with the putrefying Humours of the Carcases, may give rise to noxious Exhalations from the Ground. They should likewise be _carried out_ in the _Night_, while they are yet fresh and free from _Putrefaction_: Because a Carcase not yet beginning to corrupt, if kept from the Heat of the Day, hardly emits any kind of Steam or Vapour. AS for those, who must of necessity attend the _Sick_; some farther Directions should be added for their Use. These may be comprehended in two short Precepts. _One_ is, not to _swallow their Spittle_ while they are about the _Sick_, but rather to _spit_ it out: _The other_, not so much as to _draw in their Breath_, when they are very near them. The reason for both these appears from what has been said above concerning the Manner, in which a sound Person receives the Infection. But in case it be too difficult constantly to comply with these _Cautions_, _washing_ the _Mouth_ frequently with _Vinegar_, and _holding_ to the _Nostrils_ a _Sponge_ wet with the same, may in some measure supply their Place. THIS is the Sum of what I think most likely to stop the Progress of the _Disease_ in any Place, where it shall have got Admittance. If some few of these Rules refer more particularly to the City of _London_, with small Alteration they may be applied to any other _Place_. It now remains therefore only to lay down some Directions to hinder the Distemper's spreading from _Town_ to _Town_. The best Method for which, where it can be done, (for this is not practicable in very great Cities) is to cast up a _Line_ about the _Town infected_, at a convenient Distance; and by placing a _Guard_, to hinder People's passing from it without due Regulation, to other Towns: but not absolutely to forbid any to withdraw themselves, as was done in _France_, according to the usual Practice abroad; which is an unnecessary Severity, not to call it a Cruelty. I think it will be enough, if all, who desire to pass the _Line_, be permitted to do it, upon Condition they first perform _Quarantaine_ for about twenty Days in _Tents_, or other more convenient _Habitations_. But the greatest care must be taken, that none pass without conforming themselves to this Order; both by keeping diligent _Watch_, and by _punishing_, with the utmost Severity, any that shall either have done so, or attempt it. And the better to discover _such_, it will be requisite to oblige all, who travel in any Part of the Country, under the same Penalties, to carry with them _Certificates_ either of their coming from Places not _infected_, or of their passing the _Line_ by Permission.