An historical account of the plague, and other pestilential distempers which have appear'd in Europe ... from the birth of Christ to the presnt time. To which is added, an account of the cholera morbus / [R. Goodwin].
- Goodwin, R.
- Date:
- [1832]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An historical account of the plague, and other pestilential distempers which have appear'd in Europe ... from the birth of Christ to the presnt time. To which is added, an account of the cholera morbus / [R. Goodwin]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![men and boys had the greatest share of its fatal effects, and of these the wealthiest suffered most. 1510. An epidemical head-ach prevailed among the Germans, attended with a kind cf distraction and giddiness, with swellings behind the ears, which destroyed great numbers. 1510. There was also an epidemical disease in France, which they called Copueluche, because it affected the head with a very heavy pain: there was like- wise a great pain in the stomach, small of the back, and calves of the legs, attended with a burning fever and troublesome delirium; and also with a loathing of all sorts of food. ‘There were few people escaped it, and it was fatal to a great number. 15il. When Verona was in possession of the Germans, there arose a pestilence, which destroyed 10,000 persons, and no less than twenty-five Germans were successively infected with one leather gar- ment. 15]3. There was a pestilence in England, which raged chiefly about London, insomuch that in one house in the Minories, there died twenty-seven professed nuns, besides the servants and others that lived in the house, e3](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33289311_0027.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
