The Great Plague
Subtitle: The Story of London's Most Deadly Year
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: August 7, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780801884931
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700; History of medicine; Infectious & contagious diseases; c 1600 to c 1700; Public Health; History - General History; Medical; London, Greater London; Europe - Great Britain - General; History; Infectious Diseases; History / Europe / General
First sentence: In a remote, squalid section of Saint Giles in the Fields, outside London's wall, on Christmas Eve in 1664, the parish's "searchers"-old women paid to determine the cause of death-pronounced that Goodwoman Phillips had died of plague.