Remarkably, he inoculated himself with pus from a suppurating bubo to fortify himself against bubonic plague. |
In one case last October, a 27-year old farmer came down with high fever and the telltale swelling, or bubo, linked to plague. |
When the chancroid is healed and the bubo becomes a scar the disease is cured. |
No plague bacilli were found either in the bubo of the first or second order. |
The bubo may have opened, and started draining, and it may have been infectious. |
In such cases the fight, which is the illness, takes place chiefly in the bubo. |