Nay, how can he answer it to himself, who in his Manifesto, in the very next Paragraph, is under an unavoidable Want of a Fever he formerly neglected. Here he tells us a Tale, That, _the next_ (Step towards Contagion, and it is not safe to go too near it) _as it seems to me, proceeds after this Manner_. This kind of introductory Humility has been very fashionable, of late, among dignify’d Authors; for in advancing a Proposition, whereof they can bring no Proof, it is not to be thought how humble, how self-deny’d they are in that Instant; but they _rant_, _swagger_, and _bully_, if they get their Reader but Three Lines further. So this celebrated Author, after this humble Cringe, tells us, _The Blood in all malignant Fevers, especially pestilential ones_ (to be sure) _at the latter End of the Disease, does, like fermenting Liquors, throw off a great Quantity of active Particles upon the several Glands of the Body, particularly upon those of the Mouth and Skin, from which the Secretions are naturally the most constant and large. These, in pestilential Cases, although the Air be in a right State, will generally infect those who are very near to the sick Person; otherwise are soon dispersed and lost._ The first Part of this Declaration, if my Memory fails me not, is taken from the Doctor’s elaborate Essay on Poisons; and is brought forth with all its primitive Elegance, for the present Purpose; but by no means answers his Want of it: For it does not appear, by _any manner of Observation_, that the Blood throws off any active Particles at the latter End of _malignant_ Fevers, _so there is no need to have Recourse to this_ Supposition. But why upon any Glands? This Expression does not favour of understanding _Anatomy_. Why upon the Glands of the Mouth? Surely this Supposition is not of any Use in this Place, however serviceable it might prove in the mentioned Book, when the _Slabbering_ of a mad Dog was upon the Anvil. Moreover, Is Secretion most constantly performed at the Glands of the Mouth and of the Skin? Surely not, as _Sanctorius_ evinces, and is evident from the Doctrine of Secretions, perfectly well explain’d many Years ago.