A history of the most remarkable pestilential distempers that have appeared in Europe for three hundred years last past. With what proved successful or hurtful in their cure. Together with the method of prevention and cure of the plague ... / [R. Brookes].

Richard Brookes

Date:: 1721

Credit: A history of the most remarkable pestilential distempers that have appeared in Europe for three hundred years last past. With what proved successful or hurtful in their cure. Together with the method of prevention and cure of the plague ... / [R. Brookes]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$((3* ** ) ' ■ Europe, but aimoft all the World $ and again in i6i6\ which was preceded by an extraordinary Heat i he fays it was Epidemical to all Germany, and at Wittenberg there was not a Houfe that did not feel the Effe&s of it, eyen in fome Houfes they would be all ill at a time 5 and yet tho this was both Contagious and Epidemical, there was fcarge the fix hundredth died. Our Author, as well as Willis, lays the greateft flrefs upon Sudor picks in the Cure 5 and if he advifes other things, it is upon particular Qccafions, and for the Suc- cefs of them appeals to Experience. Horftius * com¬ mends Opiates in Malignant Fevers of all forts, and would have no Alexipharmich compounded without them. Platt'Us j mentions a malignant Fever which raged 157a. at Bafil in 1572, which was chiefly fatal to Men that were of robuft Conftitutions, rarely meddling with Wo¬ men, the Younger Sort, or Infants. It feized Men with a fudden Vv eaxneis, after it had imitated a continual putrid Fever, and was fatal to mofl 5 who, before their Deaths, had Spots appeared on their Bodies. There were no Buboes or Carbuncles found in any. The Intempe¬ rate were fooneft inhered. Thofe that it was fatal to died on the tenth, eleventh, or twelfth Day, fearce any reached the fourteenth $ thofe that evaded, were flx W eeks before they entirely recovered; and the Fe¬ ver difappeared in about half that Time. Montuus,\\ in his Ha lops Febrium, gives us an account HeStick Pep oi a Dileale, wmch he calls a HeBick Feflilence, in the Year 15-5, which raged at Leyden and^ Vienna 5 the Fever was but little, and the Sick imagined they had none^ at all. The Pulfe. was moderate, and the Colour and HnJiFence o{ the Urine not bad 5 neverthelefs they all died. J At • 'Venice, in the Year 157^, there was a t eft Hernial 157^ Di/temper, in which fome of the Sick voided Worms as we] 1 upwards as downwards, and were more diffi¬ cultly cured than others 5 Carbuncles appeared on fome but were neither red nor black, but the Part was much * Jud- de Chir- Tnfuf. p. 83. f Ohferv. lib. 2. II Lib. 7. cap. 1. ** hchenkius Obf. de Feb.. 136. pained.$