Note 264 — Chapter IV · THE FOURTH VISITATION OF THE DISEASE.—1528, 1529.
B. G. (Benjamin Guy) Babington translation
Erfurt Chronicle, and in the same strain Spangenberg, M. Chr. fol. 402. b. Pomarius, p. 617. and Schmidt, p. 305. Gemma writes of the Netherlands, L. I. c. 8. p. 189, having received his account from his father, who was himself the subject of the Sweating Sickness: “Consuti (sewn up) et violenter operti clamitabant misere, obtestabantur Deum atque hominum fidem, sese dimitterent, se suffocari iniectis molibus, sese vitam in summis angustiis exhalare, sed assistentes has querelas ex rabie proficisci, medicorum opinione persuasi, urgebant continue usque ad 24 horas,” etc.