Nostradamus Treats Plague in Aix

1533

The young physician Michel de Nostredame, traveling through Provence, treated plague victims at Aix-en-Provence using rose-pill remedies of his own invention and strict hygiene. His reputation as a healer spread, though his first wife and children would die in a later outbreak he could not contain. His methods, emphasizing hygiene and herbal remedies over bloodletting, suggest a practical intelligence his later prophetic career has obscured.