SIMPLE SPECIFICS IN PLAGUE TIMES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 177, 22 April 1919, Page 7

SIMPLE SPECIFICS IN PLAGUE TIMES

In times of epidemic . the simplest remedies are the most eflicacious. Years ago Marseilles was visited by a great plague. .Kich and poor diet! in their hundreds, and to rob the former i'oiir men invented aromatic vinegar, which, used as a disinfectant, enabled them to rille tho dead without fear of infection. During the. Ureat. Plague of 1665 those who were deputed to bury the 'dead always carried a phial of aromatic vinegar, and history tolls 'us that whenever Cardinal Wolsey had cause to go among the poorer members of his flock he invariably hold to liis nose a . golden orange filled with the samo preventive. Canary wine, too, was used in 16C5 as a disinfectant. Doctors carried little cassolettes on Iho top of their canes, which they snill'od when visiting the stricken, and in the nlfected houses the smoke of juniper was used. Headers of Harrison Ainsworth's "Old St. Pnul's" will bo familiar with the accounts given of the various preventives used in the Court of Charles 11.

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