A history of the most remarkable pestilential distempers that have appeared in Europe for three hundred years last past. With what proved successful or hurtful in their cure. Together with the method of prevention and cure of the plague ... / [R. Brookes].

  • Brookes, R. (Richard), active 1721-1763
Date:
1721
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Credit: A history of the most remarkable pestilential distempers that have appeared in Europe for three hundred years last past. With what proved successful or hurtful in their cure. Together with the method of prevention and cure of the plague ... / [R. Brookes]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Carbuncles what* ( 8 ) once. However juft the latter Obfervation may be, the former feems too trifling to infill upon. , a At. Buboes are Swellings of the Glands occafioned by t le fharp Morbific Matter that is thrown upon them, which fometimes encreafing, fuppurates and turns into Fus. Thefe moft commonly appear m the Grom, lometimes behind the Ears, and in the Neck. A Carbuncle is a fiery Swelling encompalfed with the moil fharp and burning Pudules, infe&ing the Sick wit i intolerable Pain 3 it breaks out in any Place without diilinclion, does not fuppurate or turn into Pus, but creeping and enlarging its Bounds, throws out the eaten corrupted Flefh, which leaves a hollow Ulcer behind it as if burnt with an Efch arctic. - , What Dolans * relates of an Accident which happened, in the time of the Plague in the Lower Palatinate is pretty remarkable : c A certain Maid, fays he, had a ‘ Carbuncle on the End of her Ring-Finger, and wue- <■ tber becaufe fhe was delirious, or through Vehemence 4 of the Pain, I know not, but fhe took a common c Kitchen-Knife, and cut the End of her linger oft, ‘ yet for all that fhe died the next day, with her hin¬ der and Hand mortify’d.* r . r f %he Spots, Wheals and Pnfiules are of the fame iort ot meals, P’4’Swellings with thoie before defcribed, and are ony tuks, At. *lore dklignant for being lefs 5 for m thefe the Po.fon being more difperfed, is more deadly and fatal than it 1 was thrown upon one Place. . c Some have taken a great deal of pams to inform us when we are to expect that we fhall be yifited with a Tsftihntial Dftemper, but with very little certainty , efpecially if what Dr. Mead \ fays be true, 1 hat fuch Diftempers are not of Englijb Growth: but that., per- haps, we may confider hereafter, .1 . a. Diagnostic Signs indeed may be made better ule p for thefeferveto Ihew when Perfons are affixed with this dreadful Dittemper, and how we may know that they are fo 5 which being timely difcovered any Help that can be got, is likely to prove moft beneficial, i he chiefof which, as they are obferved by Authors of moft Note, are as follow. * Dolaei Encyclop. p. 54°\ ^ See pag, 5. of his Short Difcourie* The