Also because the _Canibals_, in the _West-Indies_, eat _Man’s Flesh_, the same Author thought it not improbable, but that the _Lues Venerea_ might owe its Origin to that foul and high Nourishment, since those People were found full of the _Pox_ at their first Discovery, and at this Day the most _Mortal Poisons_, practis’d by them, [Sidenote: Consists partly of _Man’s Flesh_, &c.] have a mixture of _Man’s Flesh_, _Fat_ or _Blood_. Likewise the Ointments that _Witches_ have us’d, are reported to have been made of the _Fat_ of _Children_ dug out of their Graves; and diverse _Sorceresses_, as well among the Heathens as Christians, have fed upon _Man’s Flesh_, to help, as they thought, their wicked Imaginations with high and foul Vapours, _Exper._ 26. and 859. The most pernicious Infection, next the _Plague_ or _Air Poison’d by Art_, is the Smell of a _Goal_ where Prisoners have been long, close and nastily kept, whereof, says the Lord _Bacon_, we have in our Time had Experience twice or thrice, when both the Judges that sat on the Trials, and numbers of those that assisted, sickn’d on the spot and Died, _Exper._ 914. The like would frequently befall those that visit _Hospitals_, and other such Places, where either the _Leprosie_, _French Pox_ or _Malignant Fevers_ rage, were not the Attendants dayly accustom’d to it, or did they not use proper _Antidotes_ to keep them from it. If therefore the morbid State of the Living only be so pernicious to healthful Bodies, [Sidenote: _Air_ most _Infected_ by a _putrid Carcass_.] what Destruction must that _Air_ produce, which is replete with the volatile Steams and Spirits, that issue from a dead and putrid Carcass? ——_Sicut Grex totus in Agris Unius Scabie cadit & Porrigine Porci, Uvaq; conspecta Livorem ducit ab Uva._ says _Juvenal_. From one infected Hog, Experience shows, } Thro’ the whole Herd the dire Contagion goes; } Thus from one tainted Grape the Bunch corrupted grows. } For every Thing in Nature easiest Corrupts that of its own kind. The Reason of this is because it is _Homogeneal_, as is commonly seen in _Church-Yards_, where they bury much; for a Corps will consume in a far shorter Time there, than it would have done in another place where few have been buried.