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Thursday 19 July 1666

Up in very good health in every respect, only my late fever got by my pain do break out about my mouth. So to the office, where all the morning sitting. Full of wants of money, and much stores to buy, for to replenish the stores, and no money to do it with, nor anybody to trust us without it. So at noon home to dinner, Balty and his wife with us. By and by Balty takes his leave of us, he going away just now towards the fleete, where he will pass through one great engagement more before he be two days older, I believe. I to the office, where busy all the afternoon, late, and then home, and, after some pleasant discourse to my wife, to bed. After I was in bed I had a letter from Sir W. Coventry that tells me that the fleete is sailed this morning; God send us good newes of them!

20 Jul 166618 Jul 1666

Temperature: 18°C / 64°F (Jul 1666 avg.)

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  • N cgs on Mon 20 Jul 2009, 12:06am. Flag this

    So History tells us no money, no honey.
    “…nor anybody to trust us without it….”

  • N Todd Bernhardt on Mon 20 Jul 2009, 12:15am. Flag this

    “only my late fever got by my pain do break out about my mouth”

    Sounds as if Sam has fever blisters/cold sores/herpes simplex? Poor guy. Stress and illness often bring the dormant virus to life … no salutes for a while, Sam!

  • N Robert Gertz on Mon 20 Jul 2009, 10:31am. Flag this

    “Mouth sores do the trick, Peter?” the Almighty inquires.

    “With Pepys, I think we need the tremors, sir.”

  • N cgs on Mon 20 Jul 2009, 08:22pm. Flag this

    Where oh! where be Rochester to advise Samuell?

    Oral Herpes, the visible symptoms of which are colloquially called cold sores, infects the face and mouth. Oral herpes is the most common form of infection.
    …….Transmission may also occur through skin-to-skin contact during periods of asymptomatic shedding
    ….
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes

  • N cgs on Mon 20 Jul 2009, 10:31pm. Flag this

    shingles anyone
    more:
    old name:
    herpes

    1st reading
    Cleopatra?
    2. Entom. A genus of Coleoptera of the family Curculionidæ (weevils).

    OED: 1. a. A disease of the skin (or sometimes of a mucous membrane) characterized by the appearance of patches of distinct vesicles. (Applied widely to a number of cutaneous affections.) Now recognized as a group of virus diseases, the chief of which are herpes {sm}simplex, ordinary or ‘simple’ herpes (as contrasted with herpes zoster), distinguished as herpes facialis, genitalis, labialis, etc., according to the part of the body affected, and caused by Herpesvirus hominis; herpes {sm}zoster, shingles, caused by H. varicellæ.

    1398 TREVISA Barth. De P.R. VII. lxi. (1495) 277 This euyll is callyd Herpes. Ibid. lxiii. 278 Suche a scabbe highte Herpes Cingula.
    1562 TURNER Herbal II. 111 The herbe fyue leue..stayeth and holdeth back crepinge sores called Herpetas.
    1601 HOLLAND Pliny II. 391 Any sore that runneth on still and corrode as it goeth. [margin] Which also is called Herpes: as the shingles, wilde fire, and wolfe.
    1643 J. STEER tr. Exper. Chyrurg. v. 14 Hirpes or wild fire had invaded his whole legge.


    b. herpes virus (also as one word), any of a group of related viruses that includes those causing shingles and chicken-pox, esp. Herpesvirus hominis, the cause of herpes simplex.
    1925

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