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Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.), BOOK XXVI.
A CONTINUATION OF THE REMEDIES DERIVED FROM
PLANTS, CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO PARTICULAR
DISEASES., CHAP. 4.—CARBUNCLE. (search)
CHAP. 4.—CARBUNCLE.
We find it stated in the Annals, that it was in the censorshipA.U.C. 590.
of L. Paulus and Q. Marcius that carbuncle"Carbunculus." A malignant pustule, accompanied with swelling and
ending with gangrene, is still known by this name, but it does not manifest any particular preference for the mouth and tongue. Fée says that
carbuncle was recently (1833) endemic in Provence, the ancient Gallia
Narbonensis, for which reason it had received the name of "Charbon Provencal." was first introduced into Italy, a malady which till then had confined itself
solely to the province of Gallia Narbonensis. In the year
in which I am writing these lines, two persons of consular
rank have died of this disease, Julius RufusConsul, A.U.C. 819. and Q. Lecanius
Bassus;Consul, A.U.C. 816. the former in consequence of an incision unskilfully
made by his medical attendants, the latter through a wound
upon the thumb of the left hand by pricking a carbuncle with
a needle, a wound so small ori
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States., Chapter 1 : family and boyhood. (search)
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States., Chapter 4 : Jefferson Barracks . (search)
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States., Chapter 5 : the Texan Revolution . (search)
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States., Chapter 7 : Secretary of War . (search)
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States., Chapter 16 : the Southern Confederacy . (search)
Jubal Anderson Early, Ruth Hairston Early, Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early , C. S. A., Autobiographical sketch. (search)
Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Ancestry-birth-boyhood (search)
Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Liv. (search)