Note 132 — Chapter III · THE THIRD VISITATION OF THE DISEASE.—1517.

Reusner, p. 72. Some of the synonymes here adduced will shew the medical views of the period respecting these diseases: Catarrhus febrilis. Febris catarrhosa. Ardores suffocantes. Febris suffocativa. Catarrhus epidemicus. Tussis popularis. Cephalæa catarrhosa. Cephalalgia contagiosa. Gravedo anhelosa, Fernel. Der böhmische Ziep (the Bohemian pip). Der Schafhusten (the sheep-cough). Die Schafkrankheit (the sheep disease). Die Lungensucht (phthisis). Das Hühnerweh (the poultry cough, or chicken contracted to chin-cough), and many others. In the influenza of 1580, violent perspiration was occasionally observed, so that some physicians thought that the English sweating sickness was about to return, just as in the Gröninger intermittent (1826), and in the cholera of 1831, without any knowledge on the subject, they talked of the Black Death.—Schneider, L. IV. c. 6. p. 203.