[381] Caius, p. 2.
[382] Ibid. p. 28.
[383] Godwyn, p. 142. Stow, p. 1023.
[384] Caius, p. 3.
[385] Ibid. p. 7.
[386] “Which miste in the countrie wher it began, was sene flie from toune to toune, with suche a stincke in morninges and evenings, that men could scarcely abide it.”—Kaye. See Appendix, also Lat. edit. pp. 28, 29. It is to be remarked here, that in the year 1529, Damianus observed in Ghent, that more people sickened in the morning at sunrise than at any other time. p. 115. b.
[387] Hosack admits in cases of this kind, a “fermentative or assimilating process” in the atmosphere. T. I. p. 312. Laws of Contagion. Lucretius had already expressed the same thought in poetry. L. VI. v. 1118. to 1123.
[388] Caius, p. 29.
[389] Ibid. pp. 2–8.
[390] Holinshed, p. 1031, and others.