Crew.

IF there has been any _contagious_ Distemper in the Ship; the _sound_
Men should leave their Clothes, which should be sunk in the Sea, the Men
washed and shaved, and having fresh Clothes, should stay in the
_Lazaretto_ thirty or forty Days. The reason of this is, because Persons
may be recovered from a Disease themselves, and yet retain _Matter_ of
_Infection_ about them a considerable time: as we frequently see the
_Small-Pox_ taken from those, who have several Days before passed
through the Distemper.

THE _Sick_, if there be any, should be kept in Houses remote from the
_Sound_, and, some time after they are well, should also be washed and
shaved, and have fresh Clothes; whatever they wore while sick being sunk
or buryed: And then being removed to the Houses of the _Sound_, should
continue there thirty or forty Days.

I AM particularly careful to destroy the _Clothes_ of the Sick, because
they harbour the very _Quintessence_ of _Contagion_. A very ingenious
Author[68], in his admirable Description of the _Plague_ at _Florence_
in the Year 1348, relates what himself saw: That two _Hogs_ finding in
the Streets the _Rags_, which had been thrown out from off a poor Man
dead of the Disease, after snuffling upon them, and tearing them with
their Teeth, they fell into Convulsions, and dy'd in less than an Hour.
The learned _Fracastorius_ acquaints us, that in his time, there being a
_Plague_ in _Verona_, no less than twenty five Persons were successively
kill'd by the Infection of one _Furr_ Garment[69]. And _Forestus_ gives
a like Instance of seven Children, who dy'd by playing upon Clothes
brought to _Alckmaer_ in _North-Holland_, from an infected House in
_Zealand_[70]. The late Mr. _Williams_, Chaplain to Sir _Robert Sutton_,
when Embassador at _Constantinople_, used to relate a Story of the same
Nature told him by a _Bassa_: that in an Expedition this _Bassa_ made to
the Frontiers of _Poland_, one of the _Janizaries_ under his Command
dy'd of the _Plague_; whose Jacket, a very rich one, being bought by
another _Janizary_, it was no sooner put on, but he also was taken sick
and dy'd: and the same Misfortune befel five _Janizaries_ more, who
afterwards wore it. This the _Bassa_ related to Mr. _Williams_, chiefly
for the sake of this farther Circumstance, that the Incidents now
mentioned prevailed upon him to order the burning of the Garment:
designing by this Instance to let Mr. _Williams_ see there were _Turks_