A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 1 (of 2) / From A.D. 664 to the Extinction of Plague

by Charles Creighton

[1116] Willis, Diatribae duae. Hagae, 1659.

[1117] Pyretologia. 2 vols. London, 1692-4. Appendix to 1st volume, p. 415.

[1118] Sent to Notes and Queries, 1st ser. XII. 281, by Mr H. Hucks Gibbs.

[1119] Hist. MSS. Commiss. V. 146 (Sutherland letters).

[1120] Greenhill’s edition (Sydenham Society, 1844), pp. 37, 93, 95-98.

[1121] Purchas, His Pilgrimes. 4 vols., folio. London, 1625, vol. I. Book II. p. 36.

[1122] Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, &c. 3 vols. London, 1599, III. 225-6.

[1123] Pericarditis scorbutica—a condition which has been observed mostly in Russia in recent times. The whiteness of the heart would have been due to the fibrinous layer of lymph on its surface, from the pericarditis.

[1124] Hakluyt, III. 241.

[1125] Hakluyt, II. Part II., pp. 22, 36, 48.