The history and antiquities of Eyam; : with a full and particular account of the Great Plague, which desolated that village, A.D. 1666. / By William Wood.

  • Wood, William (Screenwriter)
Date:
1842
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Credit: The history and antiquities of Eyam; : with a full and particular account of the Great Plague, which desolated that village, A.D. 1666. / By William Wood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    attended her as a nurse, and slept with her as his wife. He remained uninfected, and she (his beau- teous ^gle) recovered, and was married to him— “ her plighted swain, Soothes with soft kiss, with tender accents charms. And clasps the bright infection in his arms.”—Darwin. The following notices may be justly deemed cor- roborative of tbe fact, that the plague was com- municated from London to Eyam, in a box of tailors’ patterns of cloth. Mr. Williams, Chaplain to Sir R. Sulfon, formerly Ambassador at Con- stantinople, relates that the jacket of a jannisary, who had died of the plague, caused the death of six more, who wore it in succession, before it was ordered to be burned. Alexander Benedictus mentions a feather bed, which proved mortal to numbers on account of its being infected. Theo- dore Mageire, in a paper laid before the King in Council, at Paris, 1651, says, “ that some ban- dages of an infected person having been put be- tween a wainscot and wall of a house in Paris, gave the plague, a many years after, to a jierson w'ho took them out, and it spread immediately through the citv.” Another writer observes, “ that contagious matter lodges most in goods of a loose texture, which, being packed up and carried to other countries, let out when opened the impri- soned seeds of infection.” At Florence, in 1348, two hogs were seized with convulsions, and died in less than an hour, through snuffling on some rags which had been thrown into the street from a poor man who had died of the plague. Forrester states that seven children died by playing on clothes brought from an infected house in Zealand to Alkmull, North Holland. Thus, then, with what wisdom and propriety, as we shall see subse-