Biology of Plagues Quotes

“Many persons never perceived that they were infected till they found, to their unspeakable surprise, the tokens come out upon them, after which they seldom lived six hours; for those spots they called the tokens were really gangrenous spots, or mortified flesh, in small knobs as broad as a little silver penny, and hard as a piece of callus or horn, so that when the disease was come up to that length. there was nothing could follow but certain death, and yet, as I said, they knew nothing of their being infected, nor found themselves so much as out of order, till those mortal marks were upon them.”
― Susan Scott, Biology of Plagues: Evidence from Historical Populations