| considerably. _Raim. Chalin de Vinario._ | | | | [31] _De Peste_ Libri tres, opera _Jacobi Dalechampii_ in lucem | | editi. Lugduni, 1552. 16. p. 35. _Dalechamp_ has only improved the | | language of this work, adding nothing to it but a preface in the | | form of two letters. _Raymond Chalin de Vinario_ was contemporary | | with _Guy de Chauliac_ at Avignon. He enjoyed a high reputation, | | and was in very affluent circumstances. He often makes mention | | of cardinals and high officers of the papal court, whom he had | | treated; and it is even probable, though not certain, that he was | | physician to Clement VI. (1342–1352), Innocent VI. (1352–1362), and | | Urban V. (1362–1370). He and _Guy de Chauliac_ never mention each | | other. | | | | [32] _Dalechamp_, p. 205—where, and at pp. 32–36, the | | plague-eruptions are mentioned in the usual indefinite terms: | | Exanthemata viridia, cærulea, nigra, rubra, lata, diffusa, velut | | signata punctis, &c. | | | | [33] “Pestilentis morbi gravissimum symptoma est, quod zonam vulgo | | nuncupant. Ea sic fit: Pustulæ nonnunquam per febres pestilentes | | fuscæ, nigræ, lividæ existunt, in partibus corporis a glandularum | | emissariis sejunctis, ut in femore, tibia, capite, brachio, | | humeris, quarum fervore et caliditate succi corporis attracti, | | glandulas in trajectione replent, et attollunt, unde bubones fiunt | | atque carbunculi. _Ab iis tanquam solidus quidam nervus in partem | | vicinam distentam ac veluti convulsione rigentem producitur, puta | | brachium vel tibiam, nunc rubens, nunc fuscus, nunc obscurior, nunc | | virens, nunc iridis colore, duos vel quatuor digitos latus._ Hujus | | summo, qua desinit in emissarium, plerumque tuberculum pestilens | | visitur, altero vero extremo, qua in propinquum membrum porrigitur, | | carbunculus. Hoc scilicet malum vulgus zonam cinctumve nominat, | | periculosum minus, cum hic tuberculo, illic carbunculo terminatur, | | quam si tuberculum in capite solum emineat.” p. 198. | | | | [34] _V. Hoff._ Geschichte der natürlichen Veränderungen der | | Erdoberfläche, T. II. p. 264. Gotha, 1824. This eruption was not | | succeeded by any other in the same century, either of Etna or of | | Vesuvius. | | | | [35] _Deguignes_, loc. cit. p. 226, from Chinese sources. |