The most significant symptom of the pestilence, Duncan said, was not buboes but red spots _ often called God's tokens _ on the chest.
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At the time of such pandemics, it was commonly believed by doctors that buboes should be burst; hen feathers were reportedly used for such a purpose.
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Bubonic plague, the most common, is named for its distinctive buboes, or swollen lymph nodes, near the flea bite, usually in the groin and armpits.
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Bubonic plague, so named because the disease causes painful swollen lymph nodes known as buboes, is caused by the bite of an infected flea from a rat or other rodent.
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If a person is bitten by a plague-infected flea, agonizingly painful egg-sized swellings of the lymph nodes called buboes develop in the neck, the armpit or the groin.
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"The natives are healthy and clean, and although the island of Cebu is also healthful and had a good climate, most of its inhabitants are always afflicted with the itch and buboes.
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In cases of pneumonic and particularly septicemic plague, the progress of the disease is so rapid that there would often be no time for the development of the enlarged lymph nodes that were noted as buboes.
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"" The natives are healthy and clean, and although the island of Cebu is also healthful and had a good climate, most of its inhabitants are always afflicted with the itch and buboes.
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While the swellings in this description have been identified by some as buboes, there is some contention as to whether the pandemic should be attributed to the bubonic plague, " Yersinia pestis ", known in modern times.
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Rufus also wrote that similar buboes were reported by a Dionysius Curtus, who may have practiced medicine in Alexandria in the third century BC . If this is correct, the eastern Mediterranean world may have been familiar with bubonic plague at that early date.
