Note 52 — Chapter I · THE FIRST VISITATION OF THE DISEASE—1485.
B. G. (Benjamin Guy) Babington translation
Angelus, p. 253. Spangenberg, M. Chr. fol. 398. b. The scurvy affected society far more in the 15th and 16th centuries than it does at present, and made its appearance on several occasions as an epidemic. Compare, in particular, Reusner, whose work on the history of epidemics is one of general importance. Sennert, Wier, and others.