The Black Death in the Fourteenth Century
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J. F. C. Hecker. The Black Death in the Fourteenth Century
The Black Death in the Fourteenth Century
Table of Contents
PREFACE
CHAPTER I
General Observations
CHAPTER II
The Disease
CHAPTER III
CAUSES.—SPREAD
CHAPTER IV
Mortality
CHAPTER V
Moral Effects
CHAPTER VI
Physicians
APPENDIX
I
II
III
Footnote
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J. F. C. Hecker
Published by Good Press, 2021
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From England the contagion was carried by a ship to Bergen, the capital of Norway, where the plague then broke out in its most frightful form, with vomiting of blood; and throughout the whole country, spared not more than a third of the inhabitants. The sailors found no refuge in their ships; and vessels were often seen driving about on the ocean and drifting on shore, whose crews had perished to the last man.23
In Poland the infected were attacked with spitting of blood, and died in a few days in such vast numbers, that, as it has been affirmed, scarcely a fourth of the inhabitants were left.24
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