The Great Plague. The Story of London\'s Most Deadly Year
256 • Surviving Spring brought new setbacks. Admiral Albemarle suffered an ignomin- ious defeat at sea. Evelyn and Pepys failed ...
The Awakening • 257 seen [in] many a day, and the young people so merry with another.” At Christmastime, turkeys given to Samuel ...
258 • Surviving Sir William Turner felt grateful to be alive. A religious man, he still marked his ledgers as he had before the ...
The Awakening • 259 A second trial was in the offing. In three days in September 1666 , the Great Fire razed central London. The ...
260 • Surviving ...
The Awakening • 261 immediate preservation of Almighty God.”^40 A physician who read all of Al- bemarle’s reports on the Great P ...
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Epilogue [263] Of Once and Future Plagues O let it be enough what Thou has done, When spotted death ran arm’d through every stre ...
264 • The Great Plague The passage of time had also dimmed the memories of London’s citizens, blurring the twin calamities of pl ...
Epilogue• 265 nues and verdant squares. Robert Hooke, newly returned from the country, and Christopher Wren, back from travels i ...
266 • The Great Plague apothecaries kept their “diagnosticks” and “treatments” for the dreaded dis- ease. A new outbreak of plag ...
Epilogue • 267 years after the plague, Pepys more than doubled his assets to ten thousand pounds, sported gold lace on his sleev ...
268 • The Great Plague included the plague. A year later a fifteen-year-old girl entered Elizabeth’s service. He avoided the tem ...
Epilogue• 269 elor Sir William Turner remained a model civic magistrate with his Puritan- tinged probity, as noted in his accoun ...
270 • The Great Plague church, “whether he would or not.” Later in life he married and found this alliance nurturing and satisfy ...
Epilogue• 271 Vienna, Budapest, and Prague with massive mortality, causing grateful survi- vors to erect votive monuments and al ...
272 • The Great Plague in the West, the new“plague.” Old fears merged with new terror. In desper- ation, European states fell ba ...
Epilogue• 273 young assistants from around the globe, succeeding in identifying the bacilli that caused tuberculosis and cholera ...
274 • The Great Plague employing knowledge and tools that Dr. George Thomson had lacked in his controversial autopsy two centuri ...
Epilogue• 275 residents were stranded and frightened as shipping companies stopped transporting passengers from Hong Kong. Two a ...
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