this reviv’d that Notion, that the Infection was all in the Air, that there was no such thing as Contagion from the sick People to the Sound; and so strongly did this Whimsy prevail among People, that they run all together promiscuously, sick and well, not the Mahometans, who, prepossess’d with the Principle of Predestination value nothing of Contagion,86 let it be in what it will, could be more obstinate than the People of London;
