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.
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[1832]
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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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    It chiefly infected boys, of whom many died; for though it had invaded a great many advanced in years, yet they generally recovered with the use of proper remedies. 1588. : There was a maligant epidemical continual fever, at Basle which chiefly invaded strong, robust. per- sons, seldom affecting women, or infants. Its symptoms were shiverings and sudden loss of strength. It was contagious, and when the patient was near death, the disease discovered its malignity, by the spots then breaking out. Those to whom this disease was fatal generally died on the 10th, 1] th, or 12th day, seldom reaching the 14th. Those who escaped, did not recover their strength entirely in less than six weeks, and the fever continued about half that time. 1594. The plague broke out again in London, and destroyed in the city and suburbs 17,890 people, besides the Lord Mayor and three Aldermen ; and Michaelmas term was adjourned to St. Alban’s. It was the same year at Basle, but began at the end of 1593, and carried off 900 persons. 1596—1597. A disease was very prevalent in Westphalia, Cologne, Waldeck, Wittenstein, and Hesse, which Sennertus calls a malignant fever with convulsions ; though he owns the fever was not always very ap- D2