Nor would it be amiss here to take notice, how unjustly some Authors, having quitted the Consideration of _plain Causes_, for _Occult Venoms_ and _Deleterium quid_, have brought in the θεῖον τὶ (_something Divine_) of _Hippocrates_ (167) to favour their fond _Hypothesis_; tho’ His best Interpreter _Galen_, understood by this Expression no such thing as they mean; but on the other Hand, only the _manifest Constitution of the ambient Air_, such as himself has described in his _Aphorisms_ (168), and which is exactly the same with That We have been discoursing of. And therefore not only does _Minadous_ (169) rightly Remark, that in his whole _Epidemics, Hippocrates_ never once mentions any _Venom_ or Poison as the Cause of _Malignant_ Diseases; But the Divine Old Man himself in another _Treatise_ (170) expresly teaches Us, that _All Maladies do equally, or one as much as another, proceed from the Gods, there being nothing more Divine in this than in that, each acknowledging its own Natural and Manifest Cause_. But I willingly wave insisting upon these Heads, as well as the Hints which might be taken from this Theory, of some Use perhaps in the Cure of these Distempers; and leave it to our Physicians to judge upon how good Grounds They do, in Cases of this Nature, under the Notion of _Alexipharmics_, give such Medicines as raise a great Heat both in the Stomach and Blood; only praying Them to take Care, least while They are ingaging the Animal Spirits in War with _Malignities_, They do send Treacherous _Auxiliaries_ to the supposed weak _Party_; that is, that they either raise new Tumults and Disorders of worse Consequence than the Original Mischief; or at least, by clogging the Wheels, and throwing Dust upon the Springs of the finest Machine in the Creation, do check and interrupt the Action of Nature (171), when ’tis imploy’d about the most Nice and _Critical_ Work.