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Show "Black Death" Bubonic Plague? ' .Some his'torian-physiciuus have but-L but-L isnVd thfinselvey, and many other men - who have followed their line of arru-, arru-, ment, that the "bLirk d.-jnh." whieh swept England and other countries, was what the world now knows to be bubonic plague, a disease thnt has a been traf-ed to rats and the hVas that infet rals. It was only 4 fiw ye.irs " ucn that the great discovery wits innd that there is association between bu- bonic plague, rat" and rat hVas. Ii has been jsliown that the commonest rat rh-osjo all iroj?c:il and subirupial - couuiries Infnst man, and if th- should have fed upon a plague. Infested rat and tuhaequemly bile man, their J biti ca.rauDica;c LuboiUc plague.- .WMfclftiua Stu . |