(Printed together with _Guillelmus Brixiensis, Marsilius de | | Sancta Sophia, Ricardus Parisiensis._ fol. 29. seq.) | | | | [177] Warmth, cold, dryness and moisture. | | | | [178] The talented _Chalin_ entertains the same conviction, | | “Obscurum interdum esse vitium aëris, sub pestis initia et menses | | primos, hoc est argumento: _quod cum nec odore tetro gravis, | | nec turpi colore fœdatus fuerit, sed purus, tenuis, frigidus, | | qualis in montosis et asperis locis esse solet, et tranquillus, | | vehementissima sit tamen pestilentia infestaque_,” etc. p. 28. The | | most recent observers of malaria have stated nothing more than this. | | | | [179] Compare _Enr. di Wolmar_, Abhandlung über die Pest. Berlin, | | 1827. 8vo. | | | | [180] Tractatus de Febribus, fol. 48. | | | | [181] De Peste Liber, pura latinitate donatus a _Jacobo | | Dalechampio_. Lugdun. 1552. 16. p. 40. 188. “Longe tamen plurimi | | congressu eorum qui fuerunt in locis pestilentibus periclitantur | | et gravissime, quoniam e causa duplici, nempe et aëris vitio, et | | eorum qui versantur nobiscum, vitio. _Hoc itaque modo fit, ut unius | | accessu in totam modo familiam, modo civitatem, modo villam, pestis | | invehatur._” Compare p. 20, “Solæ privatorum ædes pestem sentiunt, | | _si adeat qui in pestilenti loco versatus est_.”—“Nobis proximi | | ipsi sumus, nemoque est tanta occœcatus amentia, qui de sua salute | | potius quam aliorum sollicitus non sit, maxime in contagione tam | | cita et rapida.” Rather a loose principle, which might greatly | | encourage low sentiments, and much endanger the honour of the | | medical profession, but which, in _Chalin_, who was aware of the | | impossibility of avoiding contagion in uncleanly dwellings, is so | | far excusable, that he did not apply it to himself. | | | | [182] Morbos omnes pestilentes esse contagiosos, audacter ego | | equidem pronuntio et assevero. p. 149. | | | | [183] Vide preceding note, pp. 162, 163. | | | | [184] Ibid. p. 97. 166. “Qualis (vita) esse solet eorum, qui | | sacerdotiorum et cultus divini prætextu, genio plus satis indulgent |