I have gone through the chief Branches of _Preservation_ against the _Plague_. And shall only add, that if the _Burning of Goods_, which has been proposed, be thought any Way _offensive_ or _inconvenient_, The _Burying_ of them six Feet, or more, under Ground may answer the Purpose as well. What has been said of the _Nature of Contagion_, upon which the foregoing Directions are grounded, may also be of Use towards establishing a better Method of _Cure_, than _Authors_ have commonly taught: But to engage in this is beyond the present Design. _FINIS._ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FOOTNOTES: Footnote 1: Vid. Hippocrat. Epidem. lib. 3. Footnote 2: Galen, de Temperament, lib. 1. cap. 4. & Comment. in Epid. l. 3. Footnote 3: Vid. J. Leon. Histor. Afric. lib. 1. Footnote 4: Vid. Caium de Febre Ephemera Britannica. Footnote 5: Vid. Rondinelli Contagio in Firenze, & Summonte Histor. di Napoli. Footnote 6: _Lord_ Verulam's _History of_ Henry VII. Footnote 7: Vide Hodges de Peste. Footnote 8: Vid. Histor. Fiorent. di Matteo Villani. Footnote 9: Vid. Bellini de Febrib. Footnote 10: Boccaccio Decameron. Giornat. prim. Footnote 11: Diemerbroeck de Peste, L. 1. C. 4. Footnote 12: Hodges de Peste. Footnote 13: Vid. _Directions for the Cure of the_ Plague, _by the_ College _of_ Physicians; _and Orders by the_ Lord Mayor _and_ Aldermen _of_ London, _published_ 1665. Footnote 14: Discourse upon the Air, by _Tho. Cook_. Footnote 15: Vid. _The shutting up of Houses soberly debated. Anno, 1665_. Footnote 16: _Camden. Annal. Regin. Elizab._ Footnote 17: _Lord Verulam_, Natural History, _Cent. 10. Num. 914_. Footnote 18: Galen. de Theriac. cap. 16. Footnote 19: Hodges _de Peste_, pag. 24. Footnote 20: Rhazes de re Medica, lib. 10. c. 16. Footnote 21: Notitia Ecclesiæ Diniensis. Transcriber's Notes. This Book is 300 years old and the advice given has been superceded by more modern methods and is of historical value only. The use of irregular small caps used at the start of paragraphs has not been retained for the ease of reading and consistency. The original spelling and punctuation has been retained. Italicized words and phrases are presented by surrounding the text with _underscores_. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Short Discourse Concerning Pestilential Contagion, and , by Richard Mead