[141] Wurstisen, p. 707. In this seventeenth year there arose an unknown epidemic. The patients’ tongues and gullets were white, as if coated with mould; they could neither eat nor drink, but suffered from headache together with a pestilential fever which rendered them delirious. By this disease 2000 persons perished in Basle within the space of eight months. Besides other means, it was found very efficacious to cleanse the mouth and gullet every two hours, even to the extent of making the surface bleed, and then to soften them with honey of roses.
[142] Bretonneau’s Diphtheritis. Compare Naumann’s treatise on the subject in the author’s Wissenschaftlichen Annalen der ges. Heilkunde, Vol. XXV. II. 3. p. 271.
[143] Forest. Lib. VI. obs. ix. p. 159.
[144] Petr. Martyr. Dec. IV. cap. 10. p. 321. Compare Moore, p. 106.
[145] 24th of Feb. 1525.
[146] Lautrec.
[147] At first under Hugo de Moncada; afterwards under the Prince of Orange.
[148] 1495, the year of the epidemic Lues.
[149] Among them some regiments of Swiss.
[150] Two hundred knights under Sir Robert Jerningham, and afterwards under Carew: both died of the Camp Fever. Herbert of Cherbury, p. 212. seq.