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The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World
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Duchess of Margaret Cavendish Newcastle
52
Lastly,
her
Majesty
had
some
Conferences
with
the
Galenick
Physicians
about
several
Diseases,
and
amongst
the
rest,
desired
to
know
the
cause
and
nature
of
Apoplexies,
and
the
spotted
Plague.
They
answered,
That
a
deadly
Apoplexy
was
a
dead
palsie
of
the
Brain,
and
the
spotted
Plague
was
a
Gangrene
of
the
Vital
parts:
and
as
the
Gangrene
of
outward
parts
did
strike
inwardly;
so
the
Gangrene
of
inward
parts,
did
break
forth
outwardly:
which
is
the
cause,
said
they,
that
as
soon
as
the
spots
appear,
death
follows;
for
then
it
is
an
infallible
sign,
that
the
body
is
throughout
infected
with
a
Gangrene,
which
is
a
spreading
evil;
but
some
Gangrenes
do
spread
more
suddenly
than
others,
and
of
all
sorts
of
Gangrenes,
the
Plaguy-
Gangrene
is
the
most
infectious;
for
other
Gangrenes
infect
but
the
next
adjoining
parts
of
one
particular
body,
and
having
killed
that
same
Creature,
go
no
further,
but
cease;
when
as,
the
Gangrene
of
the
Plague,
infects
not
onely
the
adjoining
parts
of
one
particular
Creature,
but
also
those
that
are
distant;
that
is,
one
particular
body
infects
another,
and
so
breeds
a
Universal
Contagion.
But
the
Empress
being
very
desirous
to
know
in
what
manner
the
Plague
was
propagated,
and
became
so
contagious,
asked,
Whether
it
went
actually
out
of
one
body
into
another?
To
which
they
answered,
That
it
was
a
great
dispute
amongst
the
Learned
of
their
Profession,
Whether
it
came
by
a
division
and
composition
of
parts;
that
is,
by
expiration
and
inspiration;
or
whether
it
was
caused
by
imitation:
some
Experimental
Philosophers,
said
they,
will
make
us
believe,
that
by
the
help
of
their
Microscopes,
they
have
observed
the
Plague
to
be
a
body
of
little
Flies
like
Atoms,
which
go
out
of
one
body
into
another,
through
the
sensitive
passages;
but
the
most
experienced
and
wisest
of
our
society,
have
rejected
this
opinion
as
a
ridiculous
fancy,
and
do,
for
the
most
part,
believe,
that
it
is
caused
by
an
imitation
of
Parts;
so
that
the
motions
of
some
parts
which
are
sound,
do
imitate
the
motions
of
those
that
are
infected
and
that
by
this
means,
the
Plague
becomes
contagions,
and
spreading.
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