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teenth century. It came from lower !
Egypt This was the first tapping of the
wave that reached into the east again, |
there to stay it's movement so far as the |
west was concerned until 544 A. D.,
when the returning legions of the En-
peror Justinian brought it again into
the western world from the battlefelds
Of Persia. Constantinople was the first
place it attacked. Here in single day
as many as 1000 persons are said to
have fallen victims to it. But the plague
did not stop with Constantinople. It
had found a too congenial soil in Eu-
rope, which was little else than one
great battlefield at the time. It was
carried into Gaql, where it followed
close in the wake Of the Frankish
armies, and from Gaul it moved into
Italy, with the Lombards, and SO devas-
tated the country as to leave it entirely
at the mercy Of the invaders.
The various crusades, which extended
over a space Of about 200 years, no
doubt did much to hold the pestilence
in Europe, for they served to keep open
the channels Of intercourse between the
east and the west. Periodic epidemics
were common during their continuance,
and these seem to have eliminated in
the fourteenth century with what is
known in history as the black death.
The black death was more fatal to hu-
man life than any other single cause
since the world began. The havoc Of war
was nothing in comparison to it. It
swept the whole of Europe, leaving in
it's path such misery and restitution as
the world had never known. It killed in
three years some Is, 1000, 900 of people:
Such figures stagger the comprehension,
but the records of the time cannot be
doubted. The entire population of Eu-
rope is estimated to have been about
100, 900, Cockpit down as it was by
the constant warfare-and Of these 10O,
900, 900 at least fourth persisted. -
The ravages of the plague in Italy,
where it came in. the track of the war
| of the Guelphs and Ghibellines, was
| particularly disastrous to mankind. It
ragged with terrible fury in Naples,
where co., persons are said to have
| died. It fell upon Pisa and seven out Of
every ten persisted. It utterly and for
ever destroyed the prosperity Of Siena-
Florence also suffered severely, while
were literally wiped off the face Of the
earth From Italy it moved into France,
where the mortality was almost as
great; in Paris alone so, 900 people died
from it. One Of the worst features pre-
sented by the history Of the black death
was the cruel persecution it aroused
against the Jews. They were supposed
to have infected the air in some mys-
FERROUS manner, and they were accused
of having poisoned the wells and
springs. In Strassburg 1900 Of them
were buried alive in their own burial
ground. .
The order of the Flagellanto arose at
this time, coming from the belief that
the sins of the world had at last brought
down the wrath of heaven. It was the
beginning of the so called Hundred
l Years war that carried the black death
into England, where in London its vic
Tins numbered 100, 900. When at last
the plague had worked it's ravages, it
doubled back over its course, to disap-
pear in the east. In 1916 it appeared
again in England, first among the sol
diers Of Richmond after the battle Of
Bosworth Field, and when the victo-
rious army marched to London the
plague went with them to work its
havoc there. As long as it lasted the
mortality was as great as that caused
II by the black death half a century be-
fore. Five thousand people died in five
weeks, and then the plague left London
as suddenly as it had appeared there, to
sweep over the rest of England.
In Scotland the plague of 1868 came
Immediately after the battle of Lang
side, when Queen Mary was dethroned,
i but no records Of the mortality it socca-
4 stoned seem to have been preserved.
I The plague visited London in 1875.
4 This followed after the civil war which
ended with the death Of Charles II, but
SO many years interv sned that it is i'm
possible to trace any connection between
1 the two events. In modern wars danger
4 from the plague seems gradually S to
have 1essened, perhaps as result d
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