England under Charles II. from the Restoration to the Treaty of Nimeguen, 1660-1678: English History from Contemporary Writers
Taylor, W. F.
1889
Duration of the attack, &c.
Boghurst's f. 23 (a b). | |
The plague is a most acute disease, for though some died in eight, ten, or twenty days after they had been sick, yet the greatest part died before five or six days, and in the summer about half that were sick died, but towards winter three parts in four lived, but none died suddenly, as stricken by lightning or an apoplexy. | |
Those that die of the plague die a very easy death first because it is speedy, [and] secondly because they die without convulsions. | |