Dreadful Visitations
Subtitle: Confronting Natural Catastrophe in the Age of Enlightenment
Publisher: Routledge
Published: June 21, 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780415921756
First sentence: mere name of this malady," it is clear that people shudder on account of the horrifying and uncontrollable nature of the illness. For he adds, "This fear is only too well founded; a thousand times more fatal than war, it [the plague] kills more people than fire and sword."