The plague of Marseilles in the year 1720 / From documents preserved in the archives of the city, and published by authority, in the year 1820 ... Read at the Royal College of Physicians ... 1834.

  • Ireland, John, 1761-1842
Date:
1834
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    the arms, legs, and thighs, and small pustules scattered over the whole body. Patients of this class rarely escaped with their lives, though they supported themselves somewhat better than the former. They died mostly with marks of gangrene and inflammation ; and it is sin¬ gular, that persons of the fullest and most robust habits of body had the least chance of surviving the attack.1 3. In the cases of the third class are compre¬ hended many of the symptoms described in both the former. But the observable circum¬ stance is the order in which the symptoms occurred. For the most part the patients began with exhibiting those of the second class, which commonly were but the precursors of those of the first. And when these made their appear¬ ance, no hope remained.2 It was further re- 1 Ce qui paroitra singulier, est que plus ils t^taient robustes, gras, pleins, et vigoureux, moins il y avait h esperer.—Vol. i. p. 181. Compare ib. 207. 5 La plupart des signes enonc£s dans la seconde etaient ordinaire-