Leviticus 13

Vetf. 1+jCjLnD the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, sagtrig. Here God speaks to Aaron again, as well as unto Moses, (see xi. 1.) because he and his posterity were peculiarly concerned in the following laws about the leprosy; both in judging and cleafi’sing of it.,. men’s bodies, but the very walls of their houses, and garments, should proceed merely from ordinary causes; and therefore they thought there was an extraordinary hand of God in it. Then he shall he brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto otieof his sons the priests.] Not to the physieians, but to the priests; who were the only judges, whether it was a true leprosy or no: and if it were, could best direct him to his cure (by repentance and prayer to God), and cleanse him when he was cured. But they might resort to any priest whatsoever, as Mr. Selden observes out of the Talmud (where there is a large treatise of this matter), though he was maimed in any part of his body, and so unfit to minister at the altar, provided his eyes still continued good, (lib. ii. de Synedr. cap. 14. num. 5.)

Leviticus 13:2

WIten a Mdnshail have in the skin of his flesh.) For there this diseaseiay and shewed itself. A ri&rig 1, a scab, or a bright spot.) The leprosy appeared in orie 6f these three forms, either as a tumour or swelling, or a scab 1, or a bright spot in the skin. And it shall be in the skin of his flesh, like the plague of leprosy.) There were some swellings, and scabs, and spots, which were not the leprosy, but only like it. And there-’ fore Moses here teaches the priests how to discern between a true leprosy and the resemblance of it; that accordingly they might either pronounce a person clean or unclean; shut him up, or let him have his liberty; shave him, or let his hair grow. Plague of leprosy.) If we may believe Pliny, (lib. xxvi. cap*. 1.) this disease was peculiar to Egypt, which he calls genitrix taliitrti vfitiofum: and if Artapanus, in Eusebius^ saith true, (lib.iX. ^rae^ar. Efdng. dap. 27.) Pharaoh, who sought to kill Moses, was the first who was struck with this disease, and died of it. So false is the story of llTanetho, who, to hide the true causeof the Israelites* departure out of Egypt, saith, that they cast Qut a company of leprous people, of whom Moses was the captain. Out of Egypt, it is likely, this disease spread into Syria, which is noted likewise to have’ been much infested with such foul irruptions in the skin: which have as many various names, as there are risings, or breakings-out, or spots there; and are commonly all comprehended under the name of leprosy, as P. Cunaeus observes, (lib. ii. de Republ. Judaeorum, cap. ult.) But Moses here distinguishes them, and seems to in* struct the Israelites, that the leprosy which he speaks of was no common disease, but iriflicted by the hand of Heaven. So the Hebrew doctors understand it; particularly R. Levi Earzelonita: (Praecept. clxviii.) " aloprous man; ought not to look upon his disease as a casual thing; but seriously consider, arid acknowledge, that sorile grievous sin is the cause of it." Which made the knowledge of their priests so admirable, (as the author of the book Cosri speaks, par. ii. sect. 58.) that they were able to understand what was Divine in the leprosy, and what was from natural temper. For that there was something Divine in \t is confirmed by the story of Naaman, (2 Kings v. 7.) where the king of Israel plainly declares, none but God could cure a leper: whom therefore they looked upon as smitten by * God; and thence called this disease the plague, or stroke, of leprosy, and sometimes simply the plague or stro ke, (Ver. 3. 5. 17. 22. of this chapter.) For they could not understand how such a pestilent disease, as infected riot merely

Leviticus 13:3

And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of his flesh. When there is a suspicion that it is a leprosy. The same, great man observes, that this inspection might be made upon any day of the week, but the sabbath or festivals. Yet not in the night, nor in any hour of the day, but the fourth, fifth, eighth, and ninth: for they accounted the morning, evening, and noon, not sueh proper times to make this inspection. Which, they say, also might be made by an Israelite; though none but the priest could pronounce one clean, or unclean. For though perhaps the priest was ignorant,, and stood in need to be informed by wiser persons than himself, yet that man who was not a priest could only direct him what to judge, but hot givo the judgment. According to that law,(Deut.-xxi. 5.) Out of their mouth, or, by their word, shall every stroke be tried; which particularly relates to the leprosy, (xxiv. 8.) And when the hair in the plague is turned white, &c] He begins with the last of the three indications of a leprosy, viz. the bright spot. In whieh, if the very hair was turned white,* and it was not only a superficial whiteness, but the spot seemed to have eaten deeper into the very flesh, then it was to be judged a true leprosy. R. Levi Barzelon. expresses it thus: “When there was one or more plaees so white, that their whiteness was like that of an egg-shell, or more glossy, then it is the leprosy.” •.^And the priest shall look upon him.] Having made this inspection, and found it to bo the leprosy. And pronounce him unclean i] Command him to be separated from the congregation, and shut up by himself, (ver.*4G.) But though all the Israelites, children and servants, as well as others, were under this law, yet no gentile, nor the proselytes of the gate, were, as Maimonides, and the rest of the Hebrew, doctors tell us.

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If the.bright spot be white in the skin of his flesh. i. e.. If there be barely a white spot in the skin whieh hath not altered the hair. And in.sight be not deeper than the skin, and the hair thereof be not turned ivhite.] The forenamed R. Levi explains this passage thus: If it were not a perfect white, but something duskish^ below the whiteness of an egg-shell, he was to look 1 upon it as that whieh might prove a lesser sort of foulness in the blood and skin, short of the leprosy, which infected the very hair in that plaee. Then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague seven days.] He had something like the plague, which might prove to be it; and therefore lje was to be separated from others so long, that some judgment might be made, whether it was, or would be so or not: for seven days commonly make considerable alterations in the state of all diseases.

Leviticus 13:5

Atul the priest shall look on him the seventh day. Until which it was not likely any certain judgment could be made. And behold.] Observe this. If the plague in his sight be at a stay.] In the Hebrew the words are, If the plague standeth in his sight; i. e. seemeth to him not to have spread itself at all in the skin, as it follows in the next words. Or, as it may be translated, if it continue in the same colour, which it had before, and were not altered: for the Hebrew word signifies colour, as well as sight. And if this translation be right, then here are two marks which the priest was to observe (viz. whether the spot had not altered its complexion, and whether it had not spread further in the skin); but according to our present translation there is but one, the next elausc being but the explication of this… Then the priest shall shut him up seven days more.] The ease remaining dubious, he was to make a further trial.

Leviticus 13:6

And the priest shall look on himagitin the seventh day; and behold, if the plague be somewhat dark. The priest was to mark diligently whether there were any alteration in the eolour, and that which was bright before now looked dark; which justifies the seeond interpretation of the first clause in the foregoing verse. And the plague spread not inthe skin.] This was another token by whieh the priest was to be governed in his judgment. The priest shall pronounce him, clean.] He was to be shut up no longer, but left at liberty to go abroad and freely converse with his brethren. It is but a scab.] An ordinary seab, or scurf, short of the leprosy: such as is now in Guam and Mindanao, whieh Dampier (in his late New Voyage round the World, chap. 12.) describes to be a dry scurf all over the body, that causeth great itching, and raiscth the outer skin in small white flakes, like the scales of little fish, when they are raised on end with a knife. But he did not perceive that they made any great matter of it, for they did not refrain any company for it. And he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.] Having been suspected to have a leprosy, and something like it appearing, whieh had kept him separate from his brethren several days, he was to use this small purification; beeause there was some kind of impurity in his blood, whieh broke out into the skin, though not infectious.

Leviticus 13:7

And if the scab spread much abroad in the skin. The second sort of leprosy was a scab, (ver. 2.) which seems to have been of two kinds: one of which Moses joins to what he saith of the swelling; and the other to what he saith of the bright spot. After he hath been seen of the priest for his cleansing.] That is, after the priest had pronounced him elean, (ver. G.) He shall be seen of the priest again.] A new inspection was to be made by the priest. And if any man (as Maimonides saith) was so profane as carelessly to neglect it, by not going to the priest, and shewing him his case, his punishment was to have his leprosy cleave to him for ever.

Leviticus 13:8

And if the priest see, that, behold, the scab spreadeth in the skin. Though it lurked for a time, yet this spreading of it in the skin was to be taken for an evident mark that it was the leprosy.

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When the plague of leprosy is in a man. That is, when there is a suspicion of the first sort of leprosy, mentioned ver. 2. and called a rising or swelling..’ Then he shall be brought unto the priest.] By those who feared his company might be infectious; but good men went of themselves to him. -

Leviticus 13:10

And the priest shall see him. Diligently view, and consider the nature of the scab. And, behold, if the rising be white in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and there be quick raiv flesh in the rising.] If upon examination the priest found a third mark, besides the two former (ichiteness in the skin, and the hair turned ivhite), viz. that it had eaten into the very flesh; he was to look upon it as an undoubted leprosy. Quick raw flesh in the rising.’] Quick or living flesh (as the Hebrew word is) signifies sound flesh not corrupted. So the meaning seems to be, if it have broken through the skin, and in the raw sound flesh there appeared white,spots, there needed no further consideration; for it would soon taint the whole mass of blood.

Leviticus 13:11

It is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh. The two first signs were very bad, particularly the second, the hair turning white (just as a plant, saith Procopius Gazseus, or a flower dies, together with the earth in which it grows), but this last was far worse; being a mark of an inveterate evil that had been long breeding, and got not only into the skin and the hair, but into the very living flesh; which, as the same Procopius speaks, it began to corrode,.and would devour. And the priest shall pronounce him unclean.] Without any further examination. And shall not shut him up.] Because there was no need of any more proof, nor any doubt, whether it was the leprosy or not. For he is unclean.] It was apparent from the tokens,.which were already very visible..

Leviticus 13:12

And if a leprosy break out abroad in the skin. He calls that a leprosy, which was not truly so, but was by some thought to be so, because it had a likeness to it. And the leprosy cover all the skin of him that hath the -plague.] i. e. Scemcth to have it. From his liead even to his foot, wheresoever the priest looketh.] An eruption in every part of his body, which was spread all over with scabs.

Leviticus 13:13

He shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague. This sort of breaking-out, from top to toe, as we speak, was not to be looked upon as the plague of leprosy; being rather a relief to the body, than a disease. It is all turned white, he is clean.] There was no danger jin this eruption; nature having only discharged those putrid salt humours which were in the blood. Just as those among us, who have the measles and small-pox, are likely to do well, when they come out every where; but not when they stick in the skin.

Leviticus 13:14

But when raw flesh appeareth in him, he shall be unclean. When the sound flesh appeared speckled with the forementioned spots, it was an evident token that it was a settled leprosy: nature being not able to throw out., the ill humour into the skin; but’workirig inward into the flesh.

Leviticus 13:15

And the priest shall see the raw flesh, and pronounce him to be unclean. When he sees the sign beforenamed, he shall make no further examination, but declare him to be unclean.’ For the rata flesh is unclean; it is a leprosy.] This was so undoubted a mark, that there needed no more. Which makes Moses repeat it, that the priest might observe it the more carefully^ when he made his inspection.

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Or if the raw flesh turn again. If there was such an alteration in it, that it was freed from these’pestilent spots. And be changed into ivhite.] Look like other flesh, which hath a white skinupon it.’ He shall come unto the priest.] Desire him to make a new examination of the state of his body.

Leviticus 13:17

And the priest shall see him. Take a view of his body; especially in those parts where the leprosy was suspected to be. And, behold, if the plague be turned into white, &c] If, upon due consideration, his body appear alike white every -where, and no spots to be seen in the flesh, the priest was to declare him to have no leprosy remaining.

Leviticus 13:18

The flesh also, in which, even in the skin thereof, was a bile, and is healed. In this and the following verses he treats of such a leprosy as arose out of ulcers which had been healed: and afterward there was anew eruption, which might prove a leprosy.

Leviticus 13:19

And in the place of the bile. Where the bile fohnerly broke out; but seemed to be healed. There be a white rising, or a bright spot, white.] These two arc the first and last indications pf al’eprosy, mentioned ver. 2. And somewhat reddish.] This is a mark not hitherto mentioned: which some render exceeding shining; or an inflammation which looked very red. For so the Hebrew word adamdameth seems to import; it being certain, that the doubling of the radicals of any word increases the. sense. This is apparent from abundance of instances in other words; which are heaped up together by Bochaftus in his Hierozoicdn, (par. ii. lib; v. cap. Q.) where’Ke observes, with respect to this word, that it being impossible that the same thing shoulcl be both very white and very red; it hath made most interpreters expound this word adamdameth as we do, somewhat reddish; quite/contrary to the true sense of the word, which imports 4 a high’ degree of some colour, and therefore ought to bo translated exceeding glistering. For Adam signifies not only red, but also to c/lister: and accordingly, persons very leprous are said in Scripture to be as white as snoiv, (Exod. iv. 6. Numb. xii. 10. 2 Kings v. 27.) See ver.‘49. of this chapter. And it be shewed to the jmest.] That he might pass his judgment upon it, whether it were the leprosy or not..

Leviticus 13:20

And if, when the priest seeth it, behold, it being in sight lower than the skin, and the hair thereof being turned white,‘See.)‘If, upon a serious search, it appear to have the two marks here mentioned, (which arb those before set down^ veK 3.) the priest was to declare him unclean. It is a plague of leprosy broken out of the bile.] In (he place where the bile formerly was, (ver. 19.) Microsoft ® 3 E [chap. xnr.

Leviticus 13:21

But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there isno white hair therein, and it be not lower than the skin. If he find upon search neither Of the two mirks fceforfcuamed. But be somewhat dark, &c] Though it had not eaten into the flesh (which was a certain sign of a leprosy), yet, if it changed colour, tbcro was some ground of suspicion: and therefore he was to be shut up seven days. (See ver. 4.).

Leviticus 13:22

And if it spread much abroad in the skin, tfien the priest shall pronounce him unclean. The spreading of the spot was a token the blood w r as much vitiated, and that this foul disease was begun in the body. • It is a plague.] Of leprosy.

Leviticus 13:23

But if the bright spot stay in its place, and spread not, &c. If it continued in the samo condition, and made no progress, it was an indication the bile was breaking out again; which did riot iriake him unclean.

Leviticus 13:24

Or if there be any flesh in the skin, whereof there is a hot burning. In the Hebrew the words run thus, Or the flesh, when it shall be in the skin a burning fire. That is, when there is an inflammation made in the skin and th§ jflesh, by a hot bathing c °al> or some such thing falling Upon it. For in the foregoing paragraph (ver. 16, &c.) he speaks of ulcers which arose of themselves from bad humours in the body: and here of such as were made by fire. And the quick flesh tliat burnetii,] The part of the body «that is burnt. Have a white bright spot, somewhat reddish, or white.] Very shining. (See ver. 19.) For this was a sign of the leprosy broken out in that burnt place, which otherwise wbiild’have looked black.

Leviticus 13:25

If the hair in the bright spot be turned. white, &c. See ver. 20…

Leviticus 13:26

But if the priest look upon it, and, behold, there be no white hair, &c. The same direction is given here, ajs in the foregoing case, (ver. 21.)

Leviticus 13:27

And the priest shall took upon him the seventh day, and if it be spread abroad much in the skin, &c. This.verse and the next contain the same marks with those ver.

Leviticus 13:28

It is a rising of the burning. A tumour made by.fire, or a hot iron, &c. which burnt the part. A mere inflammation (as he calls it in the end of this verse) arising •from that burning.

Leviticus 13:29

If a man or woman have a plague upon the head, <yr the beard. Such a kind of disease, Pliny saith, came ■into Italy in the middle of the reign of Tiberius Caesar,.which they called mentagra, because it commonly began in the chin; and was so filthy, *f ut quaecunque mors prae- •fcrcndA esset," that any death was preferable to it. (Lib. xxvi. Nat. Hist. cap. 1.).,

Leviticus 13:30

Then the priest slutll see the plague: and, behold, if it be in the sight deeper than the skin, &c. There are the same marks of this sort, with those of the former: only instead of a white hair, which there was in other kinds of ileprosics, there was a yellow hair in this; and not so thick a? the whit?. t

Leviticus 13:31

If it be not in sight deeper than the skin, &c. This was some indication that it was not a leprosy; yet if there were no black hair in it (as it here follows) which was a sign of soundness and health, (ver. 37.) the case was not certain, but doubtful; and therefor? he was to be shut up seven days, to sec what it would prove.

Leviticus 13:32

And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague. So he calls it, because it had aresemblanco of the leprosy. And, behold, if the scall spread not.] For this was the nature of the disease, which Pliny describes in the place abovementioncd, that it spread itself in many persons, from the chin all over the face, except the eyes; and went down to the neck, the breast, and the hands, fceto cutis furfiire, with a filthy scurf of the skin, which is here called a scall. And there be no yellow hair in it.] This, with the foregoing and the following sign (that it was not in sight deeper than the skin), made it probable it w T as not (he leprosy. Yet he was not upon this immediately discharged; but a further trial, as the next verse tells us, Nvas to be made, before he was set at liberty.

Leviticus 13:33

He shall be shaven, but the scall shall he not shave,&c. For sureness* sake, the head and beard were to be shaven (which might be performed by any body), that the priest might the better discern whether the scall spread, or no. Only the place where the scall appeared was not shaven; because the priest was to observe of what colour the hair in it was. So R. Levi Barzelonita, (Praeccpt. clxxii.) “They shave. round about the scall, leaving only the two next hairs; that they may know the decrease or increase of the disease.” And the priest shall shut him up that hath the scall seven days more.] In which time, some considerable alteration would be made one way or other.

Leviticus 13:34

And in the seventh day. Before it was completed. The priest shall look on tJie scall; and, behold, if it be not spread.] Here are the same marks which were mentioned before; that if the scall did not spread in the skin, nor eat into the flesh, he was not to be shut up any longer, but pronounced clean; and, after he had washed his clothes, be admitted into the society of God’s people again. (See ver. 6.)

Leviticus 13:36

Tlien the priest shall took on him; and, behold, if the scall be spread in the skin, &c. If he found this single’ mark, that after the scall had been at a stand a good while, it began to spread much, he was not to trouble himself for any further token, by seeking for the yellow hair, (ver. 30.) but immediately declare him to be a leper.

Leviticus 13:37

But if the scall be in his sight at a stay, &c. If after this the scall stopped again, and made no further progress; and withal there was a black hair appeared in it (which the priest could not find before, but now w T as grown up in it), he was to take it for an evident sign that the man was cured of his leprosy. For the hair being restored to its natural colour, was a certain indication that the blood was cleansed from its impurity.

Leviticus 13:38

If a man or woman have in the skin of their flesh bright spots, even white bright spots. i. e. No other sign of the leprosy but only this. V<5r. 39. Then the priest shall look; and, behold, if the bright sj)ots in the skin of their flesh be darkish white, &c] In this: case the priest was to observe; whether the spots had any thing of a cloudiucss in them; for if they had, it microsoft ® chap. xin/J UPON LEVITICUS. was not a leprosy: if they were perfectly clear and bright, then it was.

Leviticus 13:40

And the man whose hair is fallen off his head. i. e. From the hinder part of it.

Leviticus 13:41

And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head towards his face, &c. The design of these two verses is, to instruct the priest that the mere falling off the hair from his head, which made him bald, either behind or before, should not be taken to be a sign of the leprosy.

Leviticus 13:42

And if there be in the bald head, or bald forehead, a white reddish sore f &c. If either in the hinder or forepart of a bfcld head there appeared a white sore exceeding bright, (as it should be translated), like that which appeared sometimes in the skin, (ver. 24.) then, as it here follows, he was to be looked on as a leprous man.

Leviticus 13:44

The priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean. As unclean as any of the forenamed persons. His plague is in his head.] The leprosy appears in his head, as in other persons it appears in the skin of their bodies.

Leviticus 13:45

And the leper in whom the plague is. Any of the forenamed sort of leprosies. His clothes shall be rent.] After the manner of mourners (as some take it), that he might sensibly declare his afflicted condition. For upon any sad occasion, they were wont in those countries to rend their clothes, (Ezra ix. 3. 5. Job ii. 12.) Others, indeed, think this was intended only for a mark of his uncleanness: but I do not see why it might not serve to both ends. And his head bare.] This was another token of mourning. But the Hebrew writers unanimously translate these words quite contrary: the phrase in the original being, his head sliall be free; i.e. say they, from cutting or shaving: which was as much as to say, he should let his hair grow long. This also was a sign of sadness and sorrow* (Sec x. 6.) And shall put a covering upon his upper lip.] Either he was to cover it with his hand, or with the skirt of his garment, which they threw over their heads, when they were in a state of mourning. Of which this was another sign, (Ezek. xxiv. 17. 22.) as it was also of shame, (Mic. iii. 7.) Some will have all these to be marks only for men to avoid them: but that is sufficiently taken care of, in the last words of this verse. I shall only add, that the Hebrews well observe, that none were bound to any of these things, who were shut up on suspicion of leprosy; but only such as were absolutely pronounced to be leprous. And shall cry, Unclean, unclean.] Give notice to passengers not to come near him, by crying out aloud, so that they might hear him, J am in the most unclean condition wherein any man can be. Some fancy this was required, that men might avoid infection; but the true reason was, that they might avoid legal pollutions by conversation with them; as appears by the next verse. Jeremiah seems to allude to this, Lament, iv. 15. And there seems also to have been the like care among the heathen, to give notice of any place which was unclean, that none might be defiled by it. So Servius tells us upon JEnciA. iv. that the Romans Were wont to set a cypress-tree (which being cut down could not grow again) before the door of a dead man’s house, " Ne quis sacram rem facturus, imprudens domum praeteriret," test any man, tvho tvas going to perform sacred offices, should unawares pass by his door.

Leviticus 13:46

All the days wherein the plague shall b% in him he shall be defiled. Remain in that desolate state. He is unclean.] Separate from company. He shall dwell alone.] 2 Kings xv. 5. Without the camp shall his habitation be.] There were three camps (as the Hebrews commonly observe); that of the Divinity (or the sanctuary), that of,the Levites,,an<) that of the Israelites: out of all which a leprous, man was to be removed, that no man might have conversation with him, but only such who were leprous like himself; who in aftcrtimes were shut out of the cities, as now out. of the camp, (2 Kings vii. 3.) Ver.,47. The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in.] This is a matter which we do not now understand; that a leprosy Should.not only cleave to a garment and in* feet it, but appear and be seen in it. As, in the next chapter, Mosefc speaks also of a leprosy in a house, (xiy. 34.) which he doth not mention here, because they had no houses in the wilderness, but dwelt in tents covered with Skins, and such-like things: in which, as well as in garments, he supposes the leprosy will be. (See xiv. 34.) But what kind of disease this was, which appeared in insensible things, the Syrians and Egyptians perhaps might then understand, but we now are ignorant, as P. Cunaeus speaks; ** Cujusmodi id vitium in rebus inanimatis fuerit, Syri fortassc etiEgyptii tunc intellexerunt;nos hercle ignoramus," (lib. ii. de Republ. Hebraeor. cap. ult.) And, indeed, it seems to have been a Divine stroke, as Moses himself signifies, (xiv. 34.) and appears not only from the place abovementioned, (2 Kings v. 7. 27.) but from xv. 5. of the same book. And so the Jews have always understood it, particularly Maimonides, who, in his treatise on this subject, (cap. 16. sect. 9.) saith, " that this change hr garments and houses did not proceed from natural causes, but was a sign and a miracle in Israel." That is, an extraordinary punishment inflicted by God, as a token of his high displeasure. And it is not at all incredible that such a strange plague should then infest them, which is not now known in the world; when we consider what unusual diseases there have been in other countries, unknown in former times; which afterwards have also vanished, and are now to bo found only in books. Pliny mentions several new diseases, " orani r priori sevo incognitos," unknown to all ages past; spine of which were peculiar to some.provinces, and touched not others. Concerning which he did not know what to say, but only this: " Quid hoc esse dicamus, aut quas Deorum iras V What shall we call this? orfromwhat great anger of the gods doth it proceed, that the diseases which already certainly infest men’s bodies (which hi number are above three hundred) should not be sufficient; but neio ones are still to be feared? (lib. xxvi. Nat. Hist. cap. 1.) Ho looked, that is, upon these strange diseases as sent by God, when men had highly incurred his displeasure. The last century was famous for such an extraordinary plague, (as Johannes Wierus, who then lived, often calls it), when the scurvy, which was confined before to some northern regions, near the sca> overran the Low Countries, being at that time linknowh in Germany, Italy, France, and Spain, which were entirely free from it (See his Obscrvationum Medicarum, lib. i. sect. 1.) O 17 O

But if the scall spread much in the skin after his cleansing. It fell out sometimes, that the scall, which had stood at a stay for a fortnight, and seemed neither to spread nor corrode at all, began to go on to the neighbouring parts.