Contents of Gods sacred Ordinance, Which doth enjoyn the se∣questration of the clean from the unclean. As also in the miser∣able Consequences, where through a presumptuous Opinion of Fa∣tal Necessity, such order is neglected.
The Nature of this Restraint extends to two Distinctions, either Exclusive, or Inclusive.
Exclusive Restraint hath for Object only such Persons as re∣sort from all infected places, who usually are secluded fo•…•…ty dayes from a Society in common Receptacles for salutary proof.
In inclusive Restraint, concerneth only the Inhabitants of a place intrinsically infected, when the Contagion hath attain'd that height, extrin•…•…ical Removals are Impossible, or improfit∣able. The Civil Jurisdiction then confining the infected, (with the Domesticks) to the prescribed Limits of the Family, under exterior Guards, who Minister at distance to their Necessities, till the designed tearm of their confirmed Purging be expired.
Artificial Remedies within capacity of the Civil Ministry, are either, Preservative, Curative, or Purgative.
Preservative are such, as honoured Hipocrates, Who foresee∣ing the Infectious Vapors encroaching on the Confines of his Native Soil, advis'd the Civil Ministry to cause the Etolian Forrests to be set on Fire; whereby the Air being purified, the fury of the Pestilence was from them diverred. Under this Distinction may also be comprised medicinal Fumes, Odors, Antidotes, enjoyned by the Civil Ministry, according to the Physical Prescription.
Curative Remedies are such Medicines, as by the general Consultation of the Natural Ministry are composed to the pub∣lick use, and by a Civil Injunction formed at the publick •…•…harge, to be reserv'd in publick Dispensitories, and from thence issued, as need requireth for the common Benefit.
Purgative Remedies have a more peculiar Reference to the Circumspection of the Civil Ministry, although the Advice of the natural not totally therein is to be excluded, which tendeth only to the purging of the Habitations, Utensils, Vestures of Infected Persons, either by Aire, Fire, Water, Fumes, pollishing or demollishing; insomuch, as the Infection undistinguisht may remain conceal'd, not only past the tearm of Civil Circumseri∣ption; but after the elapse of many years sometime break forth into a new eruption to the publick prejudice.
Many Indispositions or Aptitudes to several Maladies may be transfer'd by the Infirmities of Parents in our Generation, which properly fall not under the Distinction of Contagion, since they may follow possibly the imbecility of those parts to which they are coincident, as the Gout, Stone, Ptisick, Small Pox, &c. Whereof to agitate, we will not here insist, the Nature there∣of being a Subject more peculiarly inherent to to the improve∣ment