Let us cease, then, to wonder why so great Care is had to keep our _Houses_ cool, at _Page 47_, and so little for our _Persons_, at _Page 49_ of the _Discourse_; and in Consequence to that, we find more Receipts for a House than for a Man. He mentions _Vinegar_ upon the Authority of _Rhazes_, which is no more for a Person that affects an Opinion for being learned, than if he had recommended it from Dr _Hodges_; since Physicians know, how much it has been esteemed by the most antient Physicians of _Greece_ and _Italy_: But this its Virtue in the Plague of Pestilence is not contrary to what Authors advise, in making Fumes of hot Things on that Occasion. This is very manifest, if the Doctor will consider what the great _Celsus_ has said of it. But it will not be difficult to give a very probable Conjecture, why our Doctor gives so trifling, and contradictory Account of those Medicines, recommended for preserving us against the Plague; even, when there is not so great a Store for any other Disease, and some of them come well recommended for the Purpose of _Preventing_; if we remember the common Method of our Author through all this Book; for he constantly tells us, in the end of one Paragraph, what he offers to our Belief in the next. He has all along thrown mighty Contempt upon Physicians, when he would recommend himself; and now he disparages their Medicines; and surely, upon no other Design, but to set up his own. But what in the Name of Wonder are they? In this consists the great Mystery of State. If so, then there is an end of our wondering. His Medicines are of two Sorts; one Set of them published in a very small Book, tho’ there is a large Account of their _Virtues_ and _Uses_. There is a second Sort, which some worthy Gentlemen of great Families, and great Estates, have told us of, and these were the _Secrets_ of an eminent Physician. But how do Gentlemen know Secrets in Physick? It is not hard to guess who were chiefly concern’d in their Information, and who have made a goodly _Income_ from a pretended _Inheritance_ to pretended _Secrets_. This is the _Shrine_ of the great _Diana_, to which every Thing must not only submit, but for it every other Shrine must be removed, even Truth it self; so that we may quickly hear of Doctor _R——f_’s Secrets for the Plague, if it should be the Will of God to send it us for a Punishment of our Sins.