[171] In the Madrid edition of the same work, 1675. fol. L. XVII. p. 232. b.
[172] “Auster namque ventus per eos dies perflare et mortiferum crassioris nebulæ vaporem ex palustri ortum uligine, per castra dissipare et circumferre ita cœperat, ut aliis ex causis conceptæ febres in contagiosum morbum verterentur.” Jovius, L. XXVI. p. 127.
[173] In Torgau where, in 1813 and 1814, 30,000 Frenchmen found their graves, there prevailed two diseases, typhus and diarrhœa, altogether distinct from one another. See Richter.
[174] Schwelin, p. 143.
[175] See page 189.
[176] Trousser, in an obsolete sense, signifies to cause speedy death.
[177] Mezeray, T. II. p. 965, where the best notices of it are to be found.
[178] His account applies to the town of Puy in the Auvergne, where he seems himself to have seen the disease. Livr. XXII. c. 5. p. 823.
[179] Forest. L. VI. obs. 7. p. 156. Sander writes from numerous observations which he made in and about Cambray.
[180] Sauvages, T. I. p. 487, hence calls the Trousse-galant “Cephalitis verminosa,” although neither inflammation of the brain nor worms existed in all cases, and takes his description from Sander, as again Ozanam has taken it from Sauvages, T. III. p. 27.