Juvenal
, in the Motto of my Paper, terms it a
Cacœthes
; which is a hard Word for a Disease called in plain
English
, the
Itch of Writing.
This
Cacœthes
is as Epidemical as the Small-Pox, there being very few who are not seized with it some time or other in their Lives. There is, however, this Difference in these two Distempers, that the first, after having indisposed you for a time, never returns again; whereas this I am speaking of, when it is once got into the Blood, seldom comes out of it. The