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51.
Such then, if we pass over the varieties of
particular cases, which were many and peculiar, were the general features of
the distemper.
Meanwhile the town enjoyed an immunity from all the ordinary disorders; or if any case occurred, it ended in this.
[2]
Some died in neglect, others in the midst of every attention.
No remedy was found that could be used as a specific; for what did good in one case, did harm in another.
[3]
Strong and weak constitutions proved equally incapable of resistance, all
alike being swept away, although dieted with the utmost precaution.
[4]
By far the most terrible feature in the malady was the dejection which
ensued when anyone felt himself sickening, for the despair into which they
instantly fell took away their power of resistance, and left them a much
easier prey to the disorder; besides which, there was the awful spectacle of men dying like sheep,
through having caught the infection in nursing each other.
This caused the greatest mortality.
[5]
On the one hand, if they were afraid to visit each other, they perished
from neglect; indeed many houses were emptied of their inmates for want of a nurse: on
the other, if they ventured to do so, death was the consequence.
This was especially the case with such as made any pretensions to goodness:
honor made them unsparing of themselves in their attendance in their
friends' houses, where even the members of the family were at last worn out
by the moans of the dying, and succumbed to the force of the disaster.
[6]
Yet it was with those who had recovered from the disease that the sick and
the dying found most compassion.
These knew what it was from experience, and had now no fear for themselves; for the same man was never attacked twice—never at least fatally.
And such persons not only received the congratulations of others, but
themselves also, in the elation of the moment, half entertained the vain
hope that they were for the future safe from any disease whatsoever.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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