A Succinct Account of the Plague at Marseilles Its Symptoms and the Methods and Medicines Used for Curing It

A Succinct Account of the Plague at Marseilles: Its Symptoms and the Methods and Medicines Used for Curing It, by Francois Chicoyneau, delivers a clear, contemporary portrait of one of early eighteenth-century Europe’s most feared epidemics. Presented by the physicians dispatched from Paris and translated for an English audience, this medical treatise records clinical symptoms, prognostics, and the therapies and sanitary measures employed during the 1720–1721 Marseilles outbreak. The audiobook preserves first-hand observations submitted to the city’s governor and magistrates, blending practical bedside descriptions with civic responses to contagion. Listeners will encounter period remedies, diagnostic signs, and the reasoning behind hospital practices and public health interventions, all set against the social and political backdrop of a port city grappling with calamity. As a work of medical history, it illuminates how physicians, administrators, and communities confronted disease before germ theory transformed medicine. Ideal for listeners interested in medical history, public health, epidemiology, or early modern France, this nonfiction narrative offers a vivid primary-source window into historical clinical practice and crisis management — essential listening for scholars and curious general readers alike.