kantakusenos

Updated: February 27, 2026

The imperial writer, Kantakusenos, whose own son, Andronikus, died of this plague in Constantinople, notices great imposthumes of the thighs and arms of those affected, which, when opened, afforded relief by the discharge of an offensive matter.

J. F. C. (Justus Friedrich Carl) Hecker - The Black Death : The Dancing Mania