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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    ( 3* > pained, and the Skin was livid, under which the Car¬ buncle was fomething Deep. Very few of thofe efcaped. Some that feemed to be recovered for feveral Mouths, relapfed again 5 yet evenfome of thefe were cured. It was iikewife found, that black Spots were worfe than ei¬ ther Carbuncle or Bubo. Blood-letting was found to be hurt¬ ful 5 but the Application of Leeches to the Hemorrhoidal Veins was beneficial. It is alfo worth obferving, that many who were about the Sick for twenty Days, or a Month, and lived with them, and felt no Damage, would be afterwards feized with the Difeafe, and die fuddenly. Blood-letting was often beneficial, by way of Prevention, but Lenitives, and Sudonf.cks, and Alexi- fharmich never failed. Having now gone over the mod remarkable Pedi- lential Didempers that Authors have taken notice of, it will not be amifs to fubjoin feme Obfervations con¬ cerning the Nature of Contagion, which may ferve the better to explain the Nature of the Pejiilence itfelf. BenediBus f a Phyfician of Verona, informs us, that in the City of Venice, in the* time of the Plague, a Quilt was thrown into a by-place, and being fought again fe- ven Years after, the Servants that found it were imme¬ diately infe&ed with the Plague. In the Year 15 ri, when Verona was held by the \Germans, there arofe a Pedilence, which dedroyed ten thoufand Perfons j and no lefs than twenty-five Germans were infe&ed with one Leather Garment. II Our Au¬ thor fays, He himfelf remembers, that when a cer¬ tain Woman brought fome Clothes out of Zeland to Alc- meria, a Town in Germany, and having expofed them without the Walls to the Sun, fome Children that play¬ ed upon them were infe&ed, and all died. Ax.¥ Juft inop olis in Italy, after the Pejiilence had cea- fed, fome Cords that were made ufe of about burying^ the*Dead were thrown behind a Box in fome part of th£ Church, which being cleanfed, about twenty or thirty Years after, upon fome particular Occafion, the Cdrds were again brought to light, which a Servant t Lib. de Pefte, cap. 3. II Foreft. Schol. ad Obierv. 22. lib. 6» de Feb* * Trincavel. lib. 3. Confil. 17. took