One Observation I would make from the foregoing Accounts, and that is very comfortable to _Patients_ and their _Physicians_; that, _hereafter_, neither of these will think themselves ill used, for Dr. _Mead_’s saying, that a Physician (especially if he hates or fears him more than the Plague) has mistaken his Disease, and has prescrib’d improperly on that, or any other Account: and that because we find him little acquainted with the Descriptions of Diseases, and not over-faithful in relating them. Let this _Corollary_, _Scholium_, or which of this Language he affects, never _depart_ from the Memory of a judicious; reasonable Patient, or his or her Physician. I ought not to remark further in this first Part, if he did not expect I should not omit what he says of the _Fury_ of the Plague in 1665. This Scene is prepared by calling in a Disposition to Contagion that is in every, the very best of, Air; and hereby we felt this Calamity of a Plague in this Year. He says, _It continued in this City about ten Months; and swept away by Computation 97306 Persons_. He will have it allowed, that the Disease came by _Cotton_; and he charges the Duration of it on the Government, by their ordering to shut up the Houses. But this is the Unhappiness of this Physician, that he makes every Relation either incredible, or frivolous, when he would point out its Greatness, and make us feel it. I cannot tell where he pick’d up this Account; but he makes it less terrible than it was truly, by misrepresenting the Fact. Dr. _Hodges_ tells us, that some computed the Loss by the Plague to have been One Hundred Thousand; and herein he is followed by Doctor _Rosary_, alias _Anodyne-Necklace_: but no body can tell Dr. _M_’s Voucher. But if we consult the Bill of Mortality of that Year, we find only fifty Thousand one Hundred and 22; and if we add 1/4 Mr. _Graunt_ proves to be suppressed in the Account, there will be sixty six Thousand six Hundred and 96 died of the Plague in 1665. But if we consider that it began about the _27th_ of _December, 1664_. and ended the _26th_ of _September, 1665_. we find it did not last above nine Months. Consider likewise, that from the _27th_ of _December_ to the _6th_ of _June_ inclusively there only died 92. and therefore the Mortality is to be reckoned from the _13th_ of _June, 1665_. to the _26th_ of _September_ in that Year. Now if we take the Mortality to have been equal (as it was not) from the _13th_ of _June_ to the _26th_ of _September_, the Mortality did not last above 16 Weeks: So that the Mortality was really greater than if there had died equally 100000 in ten Months; for in this Case there only died 2500 each Week: but by the true Account there died 4162. a far greater Mortality, and far more terrible, than what is brought on the former Supposition, about the time the Plague lasted, and the Havock that it made in that time.