[396] Caius, p. 30, and at other places quoted. “And it so
folowed the Englishmen, that such marchants of England, as were in
Flaunders and Spaine, and other countries beyond the sea, were visited
therewithall, and none other nation infected therewith.” Grafton,
loc. cit. Compare Baker, p. 332. Holinshed, p. 1031.
[398] See Appendix, “these thre contryes (England, the
Netherlands, and Germany) whiche destroy more meates and drynckes
without al order, convenient time, reason, or necessitie then either
Scotlande, or all other countries under the sunne, to the great
annoiance of their owne bodies and wittes,” &c. Compare p. 46 of the
Lat. edit.
[399] Godwyn, loc. cit., expressly assures us, that gluttons
who were taken with the disease when their stomachs were full, fell
victims to it; and Kaye states, that besides aged persons and
children, the poor, who from necessity lived frugally, and endured
hardships, either remained free, or bore the disease more easily, p.
51.
[414] Spangenberg, fol. 465. a. Magdeburg was besieged at
this time for having refused to accept the “Interim.”
[415] Wurstisen, p. 624. Spangenberg, fol. 466. a.
[416] In the March of Brandenburg, crosses, as they were
called, were seen upon clothes in the year 1547 (Leuthinger, p.
216); red water was seen at Zörbig, in the year 1549, (Ibid. p. 231,)
and frequently likewise in the year 1551. (Chron. Chron. p. 402.)
Agricola seems to point to these connected phenomena in the passage
already quoted; see p. 206, note e.
[417] “Pestis insuper in certis sæviebat Germaniæ provinciis
(1533,) præsertim Nurenbergæ et Babenbergæ, et villis oppidisque per
girum. Et est stupenda res, quod hæc plaga nunquam totaliter cessat,
sed omni anno regnat, jam hic, nunc alibi, de loco in locum, de
provincia in provinciam migrando, et si recedit aliquamdiu, tamen post
paucos annos et circuitum revertitur, et juventutem interim natam in
ipso flore pro parte majore amputat.”—Jo. Lange, Chron. Nuremburgens.
eccles., in Mencken, T. II. col. 88.
[431] Villaba, T. I. p. 94. The author has not been able
to obtain the work of Sixtus Kepser, an observer of this disease.
(Consultatio saluberrima de causis et remediis epidemiæ sive pestiferi
morbi Bambergensium civitatem tum infestantis.) Bambergæ, 1544. 4to.
[445] 1556.—This edition is very rare, and is probably not to
be found in Germany. The edition brought out by the author, (1833,) is
taken from a very good London reprint of 1721.
[446] In the German, sometimes called “eines Tags
pestilentziches Fieber.”
[447] P. 15. Lat. edit.—II. ἑλώδης τυφώδης, ἱδρώδης.
[460] Shortly before his death he resigned the Mastership, but
continued to reside in the College as a fellow-commoner. See Aikin,
p. 109.—Transl. note.
[461] He gave for a new building to this establishment, more
than 1,800l., a very considerable sum for those times.
[462] De medendi methodo, ex Cl. Galeni Pergameni, et
Joh. Bapt. Montani, Veronensis, principum medicorum, sententia,
Libri duo. Basil. 1554. 8. He dedicated this frivolous book to the
court-physician in ordinary, Butts. See Balæus, fol. 232. b.
[463] Compare his own work, “De Libris Propriis,” in Jebb,
which is a similar imitation of Galen, and is written in nearly the
same spirit.
[464] De canibus Britannicis et de rariorum animalium et
stirpium historia, in Jebb.
[466] “Sudor anglicus fere similis ei sudori, quem cardiacum
dicebamus.” De morb. int. L. II. fol. 60. a.
[467] “Est autem cor præstans atque salutaris corpori
particula, præministrans omnibus sanguinem membris, atque spiritum.”
Cæl. Aurel. Acut. L. II. c. 34. p. 154. Compare the Author’s
“Doctrine of the circulation, before Harvey,” Berlin, 1831. 8.
[487] Cæl. Aurel. c. 33. p. 153. A perfectly similar
observation is made in the present day, on the increasing frequency of
liver complaints in England. Parents who have been a long time in the
East Indies, entail the predisposition to these diseases, which are
altogether foreign to the temperate zones, on their posterity, among
whom there is no need of a tropical heat, but merely common causes
acting in their own country, to call forth various liver complaints.
See Bell (George Hamilton).
[498] Celsus recommended a sextarium and a half a-day, which
is about 42 cubic inches, loc. cit. Cardiacorum morbo unicam spem in
vino esse, certum est. Plin. Hist. Nat. L. xxiii. c. 2. T. II. p.
303. Bibere et sudare vita cardiaci est. Senec. Epist. 15. T. II. p.
68. Ed. Ruhkopf. Cardiaco cyathum nunquam mixturus amico. Juvenal.
Sat. v. 32.
[504] For instance, in the villages of Rue-Saint-Pierre and
Neuville-en-Hez, between Beauvais and Clermont. Rayer, Suette, p. 74.
[505] Godofredi Welschii Historia medica novum puerperarum
morbum continens. Disp. d. 20. April. 1655. Lipsiæ, 4to. The principal
work upon the first visitation of miliary fever in Germany.
[506] For example, in the epidemic of 1782, which, during the
course of a few months, carried off in Languedoc upwards of 30,000
people. Pujol observed in that epidemic four forms of exanthem. 1.
A Purpura urticata—elevated rose-like spots, or papulæ of smaller
circumference: it was very favourable, and sometimes passed off without
fever. 2. Spots consisting of very small miliary vesicles and pustules
which ran into each other: less favourable. 3. Small hemispherical
pimples, from the size of a mustard seed to that of a corn of maize.
They were surmounted by a white point before they died away, and the
large kind became converted into pustules, filled with matter or
greyish semitransparent phlyctænæ, with red inflamed bases. This form
was the commonest, and extended, mixed with the others, over the whole
surface, especially the trunk. 4. An exanthem resembling flea-bites, of
a bright red, with a small grey miliary vesicle in the middle, almost
invisible, except through a lens: this form was the worst. Pujol,
Œuvres diverses de Médecine Pratique, 4 vols. Castres, 1801. 8vo.
[510] Rayer, Suette, p. 426, where the principal passage of
Bellot’s dissertation is reprinted word for word.
[511] Best in Rayer, p. 421. Not so well in Ozanam, T.
iii. p. 105. The writers are very numerous.
[512] Rayer, Mazet, Bally, François, Pariset, and
many others.
[513] Bally and François, in the Journal Général de
Médecine, T. LXXVII. p. 204. Compare Foderé, T. III. p. 227.
Ozanam, T. III. p. 116. Rayer, Suette, p. 148. Mal. d. l. p. T. I.
p. 320.
[514] We may add to them also those observed in the south
of Germany, in the œtiology of which Schönlein lays much stress
on the contamination of the air in the process of steeping hemp.
Vorlesungen, II. p. 324.
[515] It is not complete, but may render apparent the power
and extent of the disease. See Rayer, Suette, p. 465.
[516] At that time inhabited by about two hundred and fifty
country people. Sinner, p. 7.
[517]Dr. Thein, government physician of the town of Aub.
[518] The whole number of cases and of deaths is not stated.
Dr. Sinner found nine bodies, none of which had been opened, shortly
before the cessation of the disease.
[519] Everything heating was avoided; the air was cautiously
purified, cooling beverage was given, and contrary to the method
of Brown, at that time in vogue, few medicines, such as valerian,
spirits of hartshorn, Hoffman’s drops, &c., were employed. Blisters
were of service, and likewise, under some circumstances, camphor. The
convalescents were well nourished.
[520] Those works only which have been consulted by the author
himself are here enumerated.
[521] He treats only of petechial fevers, and that very
superficially.