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The Epidemics of the Middle Ages

Note 399 — Chapter V · FIFTH VISITATION OF THE DISEASE.—1551.

B. G. (Benjamin Guy) Babington translation

Godwyn, loc. cit., expressly assures us, that gluttons who were taken with the disease when their stomachs were full, fell victims to it; and Kaye states, that besides aged persons and children, the poor, who from necessity lived frugally, and endured hardships, either remained free, or bore the disease more easily, p. 51.

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