THE rigorous Restraints observed at their =Lines=, are attended also with the like Inconveniences. For by absolutely denying a Passage to People from =infected= Places, they subject to the same common Ruin, both from the Disease, and from the Disorders committed in such Places, those, whom their Fortunes would otherwise furnish with Means of escaping: and this, no doubt, in every free Country, must be looked upon as an unjust =Infringement of Liberty=, and a Diminution of Mens natural Rights, not to be allowed. NOW, under all these Difficulties, I cannot but with the greatest Satisfaction observe, that my =Precepts= are well nigh, nay altogether free from them; and yet a proper Regard is had to the Disease. As soon as ever the =Sick= are grown numerous, I advise, that they be left in their Houses, without any of those unmerciful Restraints heretofore put upon them and the Families they belonged to. I might, perhaps, have justly directed, that whenever those, who frequent or dwell in an =infected= House, go abroad, they should be obliged to carry about them =a long Stick= of some remarkable Colour, or other =visible Token=, by which People may be warned from holding too free Converse with them: this being the Practice on these Occasions, as I have heard, in some Places. The =Removal of the Sick= from their Houses, I advise only at the beginning, when it will be attended with none of the forementioned Inconveniences: but is what, for the most Part, those Sick should themselves desire. It has hardly ever been known, when the Disease did not first begin among the =Poor=. Such therefore only will be subject to this Regulation, whose Habitations by the Closeness of them are in all Respects very incommodious for diseased Persons. So that my Advice chiefly amounts to the giving Relief to the =Poor=, who shall first be =infected=, by removing them into more convenient Lodgings than their own, where they shall be better provided for than at home. And the =Removal= of them will not be attended with that Danger, it is natural for the Unskilful to apprehend in so dreadful a Disease; because it is every Day practised in the =Small-Pox=, with great Safety. And whereas I have before observed, that People have often suffered in the publick =Hospitals= by the Inhumanity of their Attendants; in this Case, little or nothing of that kind is to be feared: for I have proposed this =Removal= of the =Sick= only, at a Time, when a long =Series= of =Calamities= has not yet bred Disorders and Hardness of Heart. Nay, it may be reasonably expected that they should rather be used with the tenderest Care, when every one shall believe the Stopping of the Distemper, and consequently their own Safety to depend upon it. And as this Treatment will be both safe and beneficial to the =Sick=, so it will be much more evidently for the Advantage of the sound Part of the Family, and of those who live near them. For as the =poorer= Sort of