: IN this Chapter (said a famous School-man, and Commentator of the Popish partie, when he had rehearsed it) of the discerning of the Leprosie in men and in garments, there is nothing for me to expound; but I leave this charge to the Physitians: but Divines must not so passe it over. The Leprosie treated of in this Chapter, seemeth to be, not only that disease which is best known by that name in later times, but as Valesius observeth, de sacra Philosophia, Chap. 19. by the various description of it, it may be conceived to containe the severall kinds of diseases, at least divers of them, which appeare in the skin, as Morphew, Itch, Ring-worme, Scaldhead, and other breakings out of the skin, which overspread or crust it with a kinde of tetter, scab, or skurfe; as also that disease, which arising from a grosse distemper of the humours, causeth the loosening of the haire of the head and beard, and the falling of it off from the roots: all which might be called leprosie, being one way or other like that which is commonly known by that name, which was more incident to such as lived in hot regions, as Egypt; especially, if their multitude were great, and roome little; which might occasion the slander of Justine the Historian against the Jewes; which was, that they were driven out of Egypt, because they were infected with the scall, or itch; So Justine histor. lib. 36. p. 284. There is another disease imputed to the Jews by Appion, to which Josephus maketh Answer in his second Booke against that Grammarian, p. 783. but that is brought in upon another occasion, which hath no affinitie with the fiction of Justine.