Volume 4

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.

    16/46 (page 14)
    ( '4 ) Lcfion of any of the other natural FunfUons mentioned above, gave any fatal Indication, or before there were any Grounds to be ah Harmed, * . . i ^ i. f f Fourth Class. The fourth Clafs contains the Difeafed attacked with the fatne Symptoms with thofe of the fccond, but thefc forts of Accidents lefTened or difappeared the fecond or third Day of themfelves, or in Confequence of the Effe&s of the internal Remedies, and at the fame time in Proportion to the remarkable Eruption of the Buboes and Carbuncles in which the noxious Ferment that was difper- fed through the whole Mats, feemed to be collefted together; lb that the Tumours ri¬ ling from Day to Day, at length being open, dud coming to a Suppuration, the Infefted efcaped the Danger that threatiied them, pro¬ vided they had fome Affiftance, These happy Events have determined us to redouble our Care during, the whole Courfe of this Sickncfs, to accelerate, as much as the State of the Patient will admit, the Eruption, Elevation, Opening, and Suppu¬ ration of the Buboes and Carbuncles, in order to free, as fooit as poffible, by this way, the