| Description Of Item | Notes on the last sweating sickness epidemic which broke out in Shrewsbury and spread to the north and then London, in the 5th year of Edward VI (wrongly attributed to 1552). It is noted ‘that in the first week there died 800 persons’, that the sickness was fatal in 24 hours, and that it was only affecting the English people even if they ‘move in foreign parts’ and ‘seize upon none of any other country’.
Copied from R. B., Admirable Curiosities, Rarities, and Wonders in England, Scotland, and Ireland (1682).
Manuscript marginalia in a library copy of William Salmon, Iatrica: seu Praxis Medendi (1684) – library reference M.10.50. |