As to the bubonic plague recently raging in Camptown, China, Mary
Niles says that it was the same disease as the great London
plague, and was characterized mainly by glandular enlargement. It
had not appeared in the Canton district for forty years or more,
though it was endemic in Yunnan. In some places it began in the
winter; and as early as January she herself found the first case
in Canton in an infected house. In no case was direct
contagiousness found to exist. The glands enlarged twelve hours
after the fever began, and sometimes suppurated in nonfatal cases
in a short time. Kitasato has recently announced the discovery of
the specific cause of the bubonic plague.
Sweating Sickness.--According to Hecker, very shortly after
Henry's triumphant march from Bosworth Field, and his entry into
the capital on August 8, 1485, the sweating sickness began its
ravages among the people of the densely populated city. According
to Lord Bacon the disease began about September 21st, and lasted
to the end of October, 1485. The physicians could do little or
nothing for the people, and seemed to take no account of the
clinical history of the disease,--in this respect not unlike the
Greek physicians who for four hundred years paid no attention to
small-pox because they could find no description of it in the
immortal works of Galen.
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