The edition in the Cornell University Library is that of Augsburg, 1693.

For the reign of filth and pestilence in Scotland, see Charles Rogers, D.D., Social Life in Scotland, Edinburgh, 1884, vol.i, pp.

305-316; see also Buckle's second volume.
III.

THE TRIUMPH OF SANITARY SCIENCE.
But by those standing in the higher places of thought some glimpses of scientific truth had already been obtained, and attempts at compromise between theology and science in this field began to be made, not only by ecclesiastics, but first of all, as far back as the seventeenth century, by a man of science eminent both for attainments and character--Robert Boyle.

Inspired by the discoveries in other fields, which had swept away so much of theological thought, he could no longer resist the conviction that some epidemics are due--in his own words--"to a tragical concourse of natural causes"; but he argued that some of these may be the result of Divine interpositions provoked by human sins.