Miscellaneous works. Of the late Robert Willan. Comprising, An inquiry into the antiquity of the small-pox, measles, and scarlet fever, now first published: Reports on the diseases in London, a new edition. And detached papers on medical subjects, collected from various periodical publications / Edited by Ashby Smith.

  • Willan, Robert, 1757-1812.
Date:
1821
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Credit: Miscellaneous works. Of the late Robert Willan. Comprising, An inquiry into the antiquity of the small-pox, measles, and scarlet fever, now first published: Reports on the diseases in London, a new edition. And detached papers on medical subjects, collected from various periodical publications / Edited by Ashby Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    when it affected with violence the eye-lids (zet&oi), occasioned blindness both in males and females/' We are further informed by Eusebius and Cedrenus, that the army of Galerius, in Ar¬ menia, was affected with pestilential disorders, which extended to every city in the eastern provinces, and even to villages and lone houses —that the mortality among the poor was not so much owing to contagion, as to famine or improper food, many of them having been obliged to eat hay, grass, and roots, &c.; that the rich, though well provided, and residing in detached habitations, were nevertheless reached by some pestilential or contagious dis¬ ease, and carried off in great numbers. Ac¬ cording to Cedrenus, theEmperor(Dioclesian) himself died of the disorder above described : He was affected with severe pains over the whole body ; a violent phlogosis preyed on his inward parts, and his flesh melted like wax. In the progress of the complainthe became totally blind; his throat and tongue were putrefied, so that worms came from his mouth, and he emitted an odour not less offensive than that of dead bodies in the sepulchres/' On considering all the circumstances direct and collateral, and on comparing them with