[14] Black. “Histoire de la Medecine et de la Chirurgie.”
[15] The “Chronique de Raoul Glaber,” Benedictine of Cluny, covers the period between the year 900 and 1046. It may be found translated in the collection of memoirs on the History of France by Guizot.
[16] “Nouvelle Bibliotheque des Manuscripts.”
[17] Satirical writers would not have failed to have spoken of the marks left by small-pox. Such authors as Martial, who frequented the public baths in order to write up the physical infirmities of his fellow-townsmen, to the end of divulging their deformities in biting epigram, would only have been too happy to have mocked the faces of contemporaries marked by the cicatrices of small-pox.
[18] In the year 570, a violent disease, with running of the belly and variola, cruelly afflicted Italy and France.
[19] Gregorii Turonensis, Opera Omnia, Liber V.
[20] Latin corallum, which signifies heart, lung, intestines, and by extension of meaning, the interior of the body.
“C’est la douleur, c’est la bataille
Qui li detrenche la coraille.”
—Roman de la Rose.