Note 4 — Chapter I · THE FIRST VISITATION OF THE DISEASE—1485.

For suddenlie a deadlie burning sweat so assailed their bodies and distempered their blood with a most ardent heat, that scarce one amongst an hundred that sickened did escape with life; for all in maner as soone as the sweat tooke them, or within a short time after, yeelded the ghost. Holinshed, Vol. III. p. 482. Godwin, p. 98. Polydor. Vergilius, L. XXVI. p. 567. Wood, T. I. A. 1485. p. 233. Wood takes his testimony respecting the symptoms of the disease at third hand from Carol. Valesius, (Cap. XIV. p. 226,) a French physician at Rome, about 1650, who employs P. Foreest’s words. This last author, however, did not himself observe the English sweating sickness.