Miscellaneous works of the late Robert Willan : Comprising An inquiry into the antiquity of the small-pox, measles, and scarlet fever, now first published: Reports on the diseases in London, a new edition: and detached papers on medical subjects, collected from various periodical publications. / Edited by Ashby Smith.

  • Robert Willan
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1821
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Credit: Miscellaneous works of the late Robert Willan : Comprising An inquiry into the antiquity of the small-pox, measles, and scarlet fever, now first published: Reports on the diseases in London, a new edition: and detached papers on medical subjects, collected from various periodical publications. / Edited by Ashby Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    authors, we shall find that, in other districts, the diseases, though referred to the same pestilential diathesis, were of very different kinds, as Dysentery, Ignis Sacer or Scurvy, Typhomania, remittent and contagious Fe- vers. The destructive Loimos (page 3), which commenced in the fifteenth year of Justinian (A. D. 540), and ravaged the greater part of Europe and Asia for more than half a century, was only noticed at first as the Pestilence un- der its usual form. Dr. Freind* has translated-p at large the singular account given by Proco- pius, of the disease soon after its appearance at Constantinople. It was attended with a violent fever, with coma, or phrenitis, and with tumors in the groin or in the axillae, or behind the ears, &c. &c. Procopius says, the physicians laid open, after the patient’s death, some of the buboes, and thus detected the dreadful appearance of an adhering Anthrax:]:. pestes, coelo terraque excandescentes incessabili infestatione corrumpebant. Hist. Rom. lib. ii. c. 13. * History of Physic, vol. i. p. 144. f Dr. Freind transcribes Dr. Howell's translation ot Procopius’s account of this Pestilence, which is said to have “ destroyed in a manner the whole world.” See Howell’s Inst, of Gen. Plistory, part iii. ch. xi. p. 109.—A.S. f AvSpoixog feivov rl xfit101 £n7TE<puHog. Compare Russell on the Plague, p. 131. Jn the real Pestilence, the antients do