Note 10 — THE GREAT EPIDEMICS OF THE MIDDLE AGES.

Procopius, the Greek historian, born at Cæsarea in the year 500, left behind him numerous works, among which may be enumerated L’Histoire de son temps, in eight volumes (Procopii Cæsariensis Historia sui temporibus). This history of the times by Procopius gives a full description of the Plague, and is one of the chef d’oeuvres of medical literature, one that will never be excelled. In this work nothing being omitted, not even the different clinical forms, it is truly classical.