10400

_Buried of all Diseases in the Year 1664/5._

_Total_ _Pla._

Decemb. 27 291
January 3 349
10 394
17 415
24 474
31 409
February 7 393
14 461 1
21 393
28 396
March 7 441
14 433
21 365
28 353
April 4 344
11 382
18 344
25 390 2
May 2 388
9 347 9
16 353 3
23 385 14
30 399 17
June 6 405 43
13 558 112
20 611 168
27 684 267
July 4 1006 470
11 1268 725
18 1761 1089
25 2785 1845
August 1 3014 2010
8 4030 2817
15 5319 3880
22 5568 4227
29 7496 6102
September 5 8252 6978
12 7690 6544
19 8297 7165
26 6460 5533
October 3
10
17
24
31
November 7
14

We may observe from hence, that the Months _July_, _August_, _September_,
and _October_, the Plague was at the greatest height, and even in those
Months, all other Distempers had greater Power over Human Bodies than in
the others. When I consider this, I cannot help taking Notice, that in
those Months we have our chief Fruit Seasons, and when it happens that
there has been a Blight in the Spring, or the Summer has not given our
Fruit due Maturity, I suppose that the Habit of the Body is so disposed as
to receive Infection more readily, than in Years that either afford us
little, or else very Ripe Fruit.

Again, in those warm Months, I find that we have vast Varieties of the
smaller kinds of Insects floating in the Air, and it is a thing constant,
that every Insect from the greatest to the smallest has its proper _Nidus_
to hatch and perfect it self