deprecation; as in diseases of the chest; for therein _Hippocrates_ condemneth it as too much exagitating: in the beginning of _Catarrhs_ according unto _Avicenna_, as hindering concoction, in new and tender conceptions (as _Pliny_ observeth) for then it endangers abortion. The second way was superstitious and Augurial, as _Cælius Rhodiginus_ hath illustrated in testimonies, as ancient as _Theocritus_ and _Homer_: as appears from the _Athenian_ Master, who would have retired, because a Boat-man Sneezed; and the testimony of _Austin_, that the Ancients were wont to go to bed again if they Sneezed while they put on their shoe. And in this way it was also of good and bad signification; so _Aristotle_ hath a Problem, why Sneezing from noon unto midnight was good, but from night to noon unlucky? So _Eustathius_ upon _Homer_ observes, that Sneezing to the left hand was unlucky, but prosperous unto the right; so, as _Plutarch_ relateth, when _Themistocles_ sacrificed in his galley before the battle of _Xerxes_, and one of the assistants upon the right hand sneezed; _Euphrantides_ the Southsayer, presaged the victory of the _Greeks_, and the overthrow of the _Persians_. Thus we may perceive the custom is more ancient then commonly conceived; and these opinions hereof in all ages, not any one disease to have been the occasion of this salute and deprecation. Arising at first from this vehement and affrighting motion of the brain, inevitably observable unto the standers by; from whence some finding dependent effects to ensue; others ascribing hereto as a cause what perhaps but casually or inconnexedly succeeded; they might proceed unto forms of speeches, felicitating the good, or deprecating the evil to follow. CHAPTER X Of the Jews.