Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-11-21
Plague the ScOurge of the Middle Aces.
Barbarous and nhuman Methods OF Suppression Adopted
in the Fourteenth Century
DIR. Max Axelrood in Portland oregonian

oVercoat was used successivelv nv
twenty-five different men. and every
one of them succumbed to the plague.
In Egypt muffier was used success
iveiy by ten soldiers, and every one or
them was laid up with the disease.
The bubonic plague contagion can
enter the body through the skin as
well as through the inner organs
lungs and gastro-intestinal canal.
I depending from the surface of inoc.
ulation of the contagion, the disease
mamfests itself, in the form of
superficial localization mainly in the
Emphatic glands, ''bubonic plague" or
i'll the form of internal localization in
the lungs or intestines, black death"
The plague attacks not only human
beings. but also animals, mainly rats
and mice, pigs. hogs, goats, buffaloes,
snakes and insects. as for instance.
flies and ants.
Rats which are infected with the
plague contagion are very dangerous
distributors of the contagion, and so
are flies. They have to be done away
with at any cost.
Dangerous Scourge To Mankind.
That the bubonic plague is the most
dangerous scourge which can befall
humankind and that vigorous prophy-
Tactic aid preventive measures must
be adopted to fight the disease was
known to physicians and authorities
in the middle ages. quote some
truly inhuman barbaric measures
adopted by Barnabo Visconty, the Her
zog OF Milan, in the fourteenth cen.
fury during the panic of the plague.
He ordered the destruction of all the
buildings in which pest-ridden peo-
pie were found, and killing off the
sick and even the people who nursed
them. The order of killing the sick
was afterward changed to an order to
drive out the sick from the towns and
leave them to their fate without care
or shelter, so That many dying and
dead We're found on the highways.
Only in the sixteenth century they
plague-stricken people and plague
stricken districts. The way of accom-.
plishing the latter however, was not
less barbaric and inhuman than the
order of the Herzog of Milan, namely.
any city where the plague appeared
was surrounded by a strict Gordon ana
as no other means to fight the scourge
was known at that time, the locked-up
people in that city were left to their
| own fate.
Verified and suspected cases were
dragged by. force into so-called pest
houses by special appointed overseers.
with the result that really sick. sus-
pected sick and overseers died one by
one from bubonic plague or from star
Walton, aud those who tried TO break
through the Gordon were shot down.
In 1929 the bubonic plague broke out
| in Italy in city of 81 900 inhabitants.
Immediately the authorities forbade
inhabitants to leave the city under 4
death penalty and when attempts were
made by some of the citizens to leave
secretly, the order was given to de-
stroy the place and everything and
everybody in 1T by nre. This order,
however, was not carried out, as the
plague had already spread to the
neighboring cities. With what strict
ness quarantine measures were adopt-
ed in the nineteenth century, will
mention the bubonic plague in Naja.
Italy. When the bubonic plague ap-
peared in that port in 1915 the city
was Immediately surrounded by three
eordons; between each of them were
dug out deep trenches. nobody dared
to cross the second Gordon under the
/, penalty of being shot. The first nigat
after this order was given an unfor-
tunate sick man tried in his delirium
to run through the second Gordon. but
was shot by the guard. One of the
citizens threw over from the city
pack of playing cards to a soldier on
duty on that Gordon, and both. were
court-martialed and shot, and only by
such vigorous measures was the dis
ease prevented from spreading outside
the city of Naja.
Plague in Odessa.
In September, 1887. the bubonic
plague was imported from Constants.
nople TO Odessa by a merchant vessel
For a whole month the disease was
not recognizes as such, but as soon as
the physicians became satisfied that
I Ii was the plasue Odessa ,vas ooy,
pietely isolated from the outside world.
churches, administrative offices.
stores. cafes. liquor houses. etc. were
closed. The use of tablecloths and