The Great Plague. The Story of London\'s Most Deadly Year
56 • Beginnings successful against the worst disease of the age than occasional cleansing had been against lesser maladies. To c ...
A mantle wrought with purple spots she wore Embossed with many a Blane and many a Sore She had a raving voice, a frantic look, A ...
58 • Beginnings contagiously by an infected person’s breathing or maybe just by a frightening gaze at a stranger passing by. It ...
Signs and Sources• 59 At the Guildhall, the mayor and aldermen had been on alert since the sin- gle plague fatality in Saint Mar ...
60 • Beginnings In rare moments of reflection, when he wasn’t with patients, tending his herb garden, or relaxing with the lute ...
Signs and Sources• 61 from 12 , 000 that year to 4 , 000 in 1647. During the next three years, the number of plague deaths dropp ...
62 • Beginnings an endemic to epidemic state.^12 He needed to look closely at the “signs” on all his patients’ bodies and listen ...
Signs and Sources• 63 the religious murmured. A divine sign upon the heathen, the judgmental proclaimed darkly. Sometimes no tok ...
64 • Beginnings izens spoke of buboes and tokens and the terrifying frenzy or stupor of a vic- tim’s last hours. But could one b ...
Signs and Sources• 65 priest). The parish clerk tallied the burials for the week and their causes and took his figures to the he ...
66 • Beginnings were about to do the same with a second fatality, though this time the inter- ment would be in private, in the c ...
Signs and Sources• 67 the infection when she visited the marketplace to purchase food, herbs for medicines, and other “necessari ...
68 • Beginnings about through the forces of nature—the second causes that He himself had created.^28 Reverend Patrick, groping t ...
Signs and Sources • 69 Pall Mall residence in Westminster. For Lady Ranelagh, God was a powerful first cause and life force guid ...
70 • Beginnings Accepting God’s right and power to strike down anyone, good or bad, young or old, rich or poor, several writers ...
Signs and Sources • 71 main vehicle for spreading the infection. Like many others, he knew to pro- tect himself against miasmati ...
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Loveing brother: I hope these lines will finde you and yours and all our friends in the country well, as (blessed be God) I am a ...
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