[361] —— “cum alvi solutione ac lotii haud modica eiectione, in ea morbi specie, quæ curatum itura est.” Damian. fol. 116. a.
[362] Rondelet, de dignosc. morbis, loc. cit.
[363] To avoid exposure to cold, they preferred allowing the patient to pass his evacuations in bed. Bed-pans were unknown. Kaye, p. 110, and most of the other writers.
[364] Tyengius in Forest., p. 158. b. “Febrem sudor finiebat, post se relinquens in extremitatibus corporis, pustulas parvas, admodum exasperantes diversas et malignas secundum humorum malignitatem.”
[365] When care was not taken that the hands and feet were kept under the clothes they died, and their bodies became as black as a coal all over, and were covered with vesicles, and stunk so, that it was necessary to bury them deep in the earth by reason of the stench. Staphorst, Part II. Vol. I. p. 83.
[366] Spots, (maculæ quas ronchas (?) vocant,) which were on other occasions considered as signs of approaching death, or which did not come out until death had occurred, broke out, after a return of sweating which had been repressed, all over the body of the learned Margaretha Roper, the eldest daughter of Thomas More, who was the subject of sweating fever in 1517 or 1528, and recovered. Th. Stapleton, Vita et obitus Thomæ Mori, c. 6, p. 26. See Mori Opera.
[367] And certainly only after very appropriate and careful treatment. See the Wittenberg Regimen, Kaye, loc. cit. Schmidt, p. 307, and Klemzer, p. 256.
[368] Newenar, fol. 72. b.
[369] Erasm. Epist. L. XXVI. Ep. 58. p. 1477. b. “Et crebro quos reliquit brevi intervallo repetens, nec id semel, sed bis, ter, quater, donec in hydropem aut aliud morbi genus versus, tandem extinguat miseris excarnificatum modis.”
[370] Kaye, p. 110.