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The Epidemics of the Middle Ages

Note 366 — Chapter IV · THE FOURTH VISITATION OF THE DISEASE.—1528, 1529. (continued 2)

B. G. (Benjamin Guy) Babington translation

Spots, (maculæ quas ronchas (?) vocant,) which were on other occasions considered as signs of approaching death, or which did not come out until death had occurred, broke out, after a return of sweating which had been repressed, all over the body of the learned Margaretha Roper, the eldest daughter of Thomas More, who was the subject of sweating fever in 1517 or 1528, and recovered. Th. Stapleton, Vita et obitus Thomæ Mori, c. 6, p. 26. See Mori Opera.

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