Volume 1

A succinct account of the plague at Marseilles. Its symptoms and the methods and medicines used for curing it / ... by M. Chicoyneau ... Translated from the French by a physician.

  • Chicoyneau, François, 1672-1752.
Date:
1721
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Credit: A succinct account of the plague at Marseilles. Its symptoms and the methods and medicines used for curing it / ... by M. Chicoyneau ... Translated from the French by a physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    at the Beginning, or in the Progrefs of this' Diftemper, very painful Buboes, fituated commonly below the Groin, fometimes in the Groin or Arm-pits, or in the Parotide, Maxillar, or jugular Glands 3 as likewife Carbuncles, efpccially on the Arms, Legs or Thighs, fmall, white, livid, black Puftlcs, difperfed over all the Surface of the Body. IT was very rare to fee any of the difeafed of this Second Clafs efcape, though they fup- ported themfelves a little longer than thofe of the preceding 5 they perifhed almofl: all’ with the Marks of a gangren'd Inflammati¬ on, efpccially in the Brain and Thorax ; and that which was moft Angular is, that the ftron- gcr, fatter, fuller, and more vigorous they were, the Icfs we had to hope. A s to the Remedies, they bore Bleeding no better than thofe of the Firfl: Clafs j at ieaft if they were not blooded at the very firfl: Inftant of their being taken Sick ; It was evidently hurtful to 'em 5 they grew pale, and fell even in the time of their firfl: Bleeding, or a little while after, into fuch Faintings, as could not in mofl: of them be imputed to any Fear, Repugnance, or Diftruft, fince they demanded with Earneftaefs to have a Vein opened. All