| Show THE BLACK DEATH TUB appalling appal hog intelligence reaches Us ue from europe that black deaths has it appeared once more in eastern lu in the century this terris terri urge desolated the world it was tu the none of black because of the spots of that color which appeared on uw a lu in one of the stages of tb icv these spots indicated MW decomposition had already set in ven before death in europe uie the period of the most moot terrible ravages made by this pest lole leoce was between 1348 and 1351 alone lost biot over persons fifteen of the other european cities lost la in the aggregate souls germany lost nearly while italy lost one half of its entire population it is estimated that in europe lone human beings being were carried off on by this fearful malady in the oriental countries it is calca that upwards of people were swept away by black death the symptoms of the disease were boils on the thighs arms and fare face in many wes eases black spots all over the body in some other cases af affection of the bead stupor and palsy of be tongue which became black burning and insatiable thirst putrid inflammation of the lungs lunge attended by pains in the chest expectoration of blood and a fetid breath after two or three days day a the victim perished many when affected with spots aud and boils did not wait for death but killed themselves the history of this malady is in involved in obscurity however it is generally accepted that china was its birthplace birth place but the date of its first appearance pe arance there is unknown in 1333 A D china was wrecked from centre to circumference by earthquakes droughts famines fam iDes floods and other calamities and then followed this terri ble scourge about this time europe also experienced climatic phenomena the order of the seasons seemed inverted in 1342 a mild form of the disease appeared but created no alarm in 1348 it broke out in its most virulent form the course of the plague was tracked directly from china by moans means of the caravan routes it appeared first on the northern coast of the black sea next in constantinople then in italy whence it spread to germany france and scandinavia and finally to the british islands one writer sadei the mortality caused by the plague was however only one of the evils to w which aich it gave rise its it moral effects 0 on n the survivors and the frame of society were no less momentous carly die died of fer fear w which aleh nal mg the living dissolved the ties of kindred kindre mothers forsook their plague stricken children the worldly became qui quickened to toft a maddening eouse dedace of sm bin abo religious died their 0 eyes as more inore steadily on futurity all rushed to bacri diw choir annna to the church while the 1 priests priests drew back from the gold red ered over their walla As being tainted balti tadd erith with death superstition finally banded multitudes together by common means to work out the common safety rn in hu hungary r and afterwards in ger cler maryrose many rose the ze brotherhood of flagellants Flagellant Flagel lants al who undertook to the sina sin of mhd chri people eople and avelt all the pestilence by bolf fiti imposed posed offerings offer offerings ints originally of the lower classes they gat gathered ered to their order RS as it extended crowds of the highest both men and women and marched from city to jail tail robed in sombre garments with red crosses on the breast back and au cap cat and their heads covered coveak us as ekr far as the eyes they went chanting la in solemn solem pro cessions sessions ces with banners with dow down n turn turned faces and bearing triple scourges urges with points of iron with which at stated slated times they lacerated their bodies in place of helping to avert the plague these peculiar fanatics only helped to spread it they created panic and confusion wherever they went in addition to this a rumor was started that the jews poisoned the wells and this gaining bold of the popular mind the most terrible feature of the scourge was inaugurated the people orile rose up to exterminate the hebrew race ewh in mayence alone were murd fro all through Furo europe ipe wherever iv jew was found murder immediate and horrible was waa his hia doom these were dreadful dread fu 1 days A repe tion of them in our time would bs ba awful god grant that such may not be the case |
