Note 141 — Chapter III · THE THIRD VISITATION OF THE DISEASE.—1517.

Wurstisen, p. 707. In this seventeenth year there arose an unknown epidemic. The patients’ tongues and gullets were white, as if coated with mould; they could neither eat nor drink, but suffered from headache together with a pestilential fever which rendered them delirious. By this disease 2000 persons perished in Basle within the space of eight months. Besides other means, it was found very efficacious to cleanse the mouth and gullet every two hours, even to the extent of making the surface bleed, and then to soften them with honey of roses.