[159] “Curationem omnem respuit pestis confirmata.”—Chalin, p. 33.
[160] Jacob. Francischini de Ambrosiis. In the Appendix to the Istorie Pistolesi, in Muratori, Tom. XI. p. 528.
[161] Gentilis de Fulgineo Consilia. De Peste Cons. I. II. fol. 76, 77. Venet. 1514. fol.
[162] —“venenosa putredo circa partes cordis et pulmonis de quibus exeunte venenoso vapore, periculum est in vicinitatibus.” Cons. I. fol. 76, a.
[163] Dr. Maclean’s notion that the doctrine of contagion was first promulgated in the year 1547, by Pope Paul III., &c., thus falls to the ground, together with all the arguments founded on it.—See Maclean on Epid. and Pestilent. Diseases, 8vo, 1817, Pt. II. Book II. ch. 3, 4.—Transl. note.
[164] Lippitudo contagione spectantium oculos afficit.—Chalin de Vinario, p. 149.
[165] See the Author’s Geschichte der Heilkunde, Vol. II. P. III.
[166] Compare Marx, Origines contagii. Caroliruh. et Bad. 1824. 8.
[167] Cæl. Aurelian. Chron. L. IV. c. 1. p. 497. Ed. Amman. “Sed hi ægrotantem destituendum magis imperant, quam curandum, quod a se alienum humanitas approbat medicinæ.”
[168] Geschichte der Heilkunde, Vol. II. p. 248.