Dr. _Mead_ has the readiest Way of getting rid of a Difficulty, of any Author, tho’ I cannot say it is always the most informing and perswasive. No Man that understands these Terms, _a Salt_, what it is to be _soft_ and _porous_, dares keep back his Assent to a Proof _grounded upon such manifest Observations_, as _Conjectures_, _Perhaps’s_, and _May-bee’s_; all which are far more ingenious than _Kircher_’s Maggots-Eggs. However bold this Argument may be, yet if any one will deny his Matter of _Contagion_ to be an active Substance; or, that it is a Salt; or, that it rather affects a _soft_ Bed than one that is _hard_, this _Third_, and last _propagating Cause_, may prove to be no manner of Cause; and all the World, Merchants especially, cry out against their Merchandize serving _Quarantine_. Could Dr. _Mead_ bring all his ordinary Vouchers, I cannot say how far he might have gone in commanding a Submission from a great Number of Men to this Article: And therefore if any Person, or Persons, wants fuller Conviction, let him repair to the _Coffee-Houses_, where they shall have the Affidavits of ten Physicians, fifteen Apothecaries, and five Surgeons; and I’ll answer for it, eight in ten shall go, _from _Batson_’s especially_, fully satisfied with the Truth of the Premises. But can it be imagined this cunning Doctor would have expos’d his Character, in this Kind of Argument, to Men of Learning and Virtue. But here his drooping Spirits revert, and his _Humility_ and _Modesty_ vanish, having at this Stage got rid of the Necessity of Reasoning, the rest of this inimitable Work being to be carry’d on by Banter and Assertion; whereby let us take Measure of the Faith and Credulity of the good People of _England_; for if this passes, _Transubstantiation may be the next Article he will propose to you_; if it does not, the Doctor and his Book are discovered at the same Time.