Listing the symptons of London's 1665 plague, in the language of a contemporary doctor
Mike Pollitt | Wednesday 17 October, 2012 12:58
FIRST, The manifest Signs of Infection
Horror
Vomiting
Delirium
Dizziness
Head-ach
Stupefaction.
SECONDLY, The Appearances after Infection
Fever
Watching
Palpitation of the Heart
Bleeding at Nose
a great Heat about the Precordia.
THE Signs more peculiar to a Pestilence, are those Pustules which the common People call:
Blains
Buboes
Carbuncles
Spots
and those Marks called Tokens.
The pestilential Poison might be shook…out of the Nerves into the Muscles, and there cause:
Tention
Trembling
Vellication
Yawning
Stretching
and all those other Concomitants of putrid and malignant Fevers.
Taken from the Loimologia of Nathaniel Hodges.
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