(Lord’s day). Up, and after being trimmed, by boat to the Cockpitt, where I heard the Duke of Albemarle’s chaplin make a simple sermon: among other things, reproaching the imperfection of humane learning, he cried: “All our physicians cannot tell what an ague is, and all our arithmetique is not able to number the days of a man;”
an ague is an acute fever. i think that most physicians can probably say what causes it, but 343 years later i have no idea. the plague is in london. someone named Captain Cocke got “drunk as a dogg.” I set up pepys.tumblr.com so i can read this stuff on my dashboard.
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