Note 387 — Chapter V · FIFTH VISITATION OF THE DISEASE.—1551.
B. G. (Benjamin Guy) Babington translation
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.