The Epidemics of the Middle AgesHecker, J. F. C. (Justus Friedrich Carl)
History
The Epidemics of the Middle Ages
Hecker, J. F. C. (Justus Friedrich Carl)
Black Death; Epidemics -- History; Hysteria, Epidemic
| [20] Anonym. Leobiens. Chron. L. VI. in _Hier. Pez_, Scriptor. |
| rer. Austriac. Lips. 1721. fol. Tom. I. p. 970. The above named |
| appearances are here called, _rote sprinkel, swarcze erhubenn_ und |
| _druesz under den üchsen und ze den gemüchten_. |
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| [21] _Ubb. Emmiie_ rer. Frisiacar. histor. L. XIV. p. 203. Lugd. |
| Bat. 1616. fol. |
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| [22] _Guillelmus de Nangis_, loc. cit. |
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| [23] _Ant. Wood_, Historia et Antiquitates Universit. Oxoniens. |
| Oxon. 1764. fol. L. l. p. 172. |
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| [24] _Mezeray_, Histoire de France. Paris, 1685. fol. T. II. p. 418. |
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| [25] _Barnes_, who has given a lively picture of the black plague, |
| in England, taken from the Registers of the 14th century, describes |
| the external symptoms in the following terms: knobs or swellings |
| in the groin or under the armpits, called kernels, biles, blains, |
| blisters, pimples, wheals or plague-sores. The Hist. of Edw. III. |
| Cambridge, 1688, fol. p. 432. |
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| [26] _Torfæus_, Historia rerum Norvegicarum. Hafn. 1711. fol. |
| L. ix. c. 8. p. 478. This author has followed _Pontanus_ (Rerum |
| Danicar. Historia. Amstelod. 1631. fol.) who has given only a |
| general account of the plague in Denmark, and nothing respecting |
| its symptoms. |
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| [27] _Dlugoss_, vide Longini Histor. polonic. L. xii. Lips. 1711. |
| fol. T. I. p. 1086. |
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| [28] _W. M. Richter_, Geschichte der Medicin in Russland. Moskwa, |
| 1813, 8. p. 215. _Richter_ has taken his information on the black |
| plague in Russia, from authentic Russian MSS. |
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| [29] Compare on this point, _Balling’s_ treatise “Zur Diagnostik |
| der Lungenerweichung.” Vol XVI. ii. 3. p. 257 of litt. Annalen der |
| ges. Heilkunde. |
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| [30] It is expressly ascertained with respect to Avignon and |
| Paris, that uncleanliness of the streets increased the plague |
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