When he had said their companions had died of buboes, Ron Val had looked as if he thought he was out of his mind. |
It was not characterized by buboes, and it is very probable that it was largely smallpox. |
Though the bubonic plague's namesake buboes are not visible in the picture, their painful presence can be intuited from the victims' postures. |
The symptoms of plague were swollen lymph nodes in the armpits and groin known as buboes, hence Bubonic Plague, and death followed within hours or a few days at the most. |
The bubonic plague typically presents two to eight days after exposure, with sudden onset of fever, chills, weakness, and acutely swollen lymph nodes called buboes. |
Mortification of the buboes carried off such as experienced neither stupor nor frenzy, and they died at last exhausted by agony. |