Doctors and Medicine in Early Renaissance Florence
IN 1346, wrote the Florentine chronicler Matteo Villani, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn conjoined in Aquarius. In the same year a wave of pestilence appeared in the East, "toward Cathay and northern India," and began to spread westward. It was a plague which touched people of every condition, a...
| Main Author: | KATHARINE PARK |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Bahasa Inggris |
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Princeton University Press
2014
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| Online Access: |
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| Summary: |
IN 1346, wrote the Florentine chronicler Matteo Villani, Mars, Jupiter,
and Saturn conjoined in Aquarius. In the same year a wave
of pestilence appeared in the East, "toward Cathay and northern
India," and began to spread westward.
It was a plague which touched people of every condition, age,
and sex. They began to spit blood and then they died—some
immediately, some in two or three days, and some in a longer
time. And it happened that whoever cared for the sick caught the
disease from them or, infected by the same corrupt air, became
rapidly ill and died in the same way. Most had swellings in the
groin, and many had them in the left and right armpits and other
places; one could almost always find an unusual swelling somewhere
on the victim's body.1 |
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| ISBN: |
e book 628 |