[390] Michael Varod was _procureur_ of the hospital at Geneva in
1542.
Recommendation of a sick person.
[1542.]
SEIGNEUR MICHEL,--This poor man is so very disfigured in body, that
it is pitiful, and even shockingly horrible, to see. He says that it
has not happened through profligacy. Seeing that it is a pitiable
case, will you consider whether you can manage to help him, so that
he may not putrefy in rank corruption? I recommend him all the more
earnestly to you, as thinking that he must belong to the town, for
had he been a stranger, I would myself have provided for him in some
way, so that no occasion might be given to cry out as they do. But
since he is here, I make less difficulty about it.--Your brother and
good friend,