Show I 1 I 1 THE BLACK BUCK MU DEATH Ill THAT FEARFUL PLAGUE THAT POL FOL LOWS IN THE WAKE OF WAR I 1 i in tl ti e Fourte ep th century it ewel t tl if a 1 M I 1 I ole of I 1 drope billing ty fire ous of t I 1 opie eople in tl TI reo le armATI 1 a iu in london the plague or post iUnce luice that mys tenons and fearful which has dined ed its lost i in the wal a e ot of armies to sl ay iy more than w ar itself is supposed to have han e first originate I 1 among tl ti etuin 0 aei e massee masses of people who crowde I 1 tog together ther in the great aties of abba and egypt or who the encampment of a cyrus and Ta merlino merline tho the kartar it probably sprang from the impurity which ill must lw hai e existed in the emst of such vast vait gatherings and in part also frona from leaving the unburied dead lead upon the field of battle at any rito r ito the germe germs of this tearful fearful human poison leave ave always been most active where condi eions similar to those have pren prevailed ailed it has always been war and the march of armies that has hits spread it broa least over the world from time to time and as war became less frequent and will less lebs worldwide the frequency and extent of these ravages hav ha e lessened also the first recorded outbreak of the plague in europe occurred in thesia the six century it came from lower losier egypt this anas w as the first lapping of the wave that reached into the east agian there to stay its mo ement so far as the west was concerned conc emed until A D when the returning legions of the em ein geror justinian brought it again into the western estern world vs orld from the battlefields of persia constantinople was the first place it attacked hero in a single day aa as many as 10 persons are to have fallen victims to it but the plague did not stop with constantinople it had found a too congenial soil in eu rope which was little else than one great battlefield at the time it was carried into gaul where it followed close in the wake of the prankish frankish armies and from gaul it moved into italy with the bombards lombards Lom bards birds and so divas di vas bated the country as to leave it entirely at the mercy of the invaders the various crusades which extended over a space of about years no if 0 doubt did much to hold bold the pestilence in europe for they served to keep open the channels of intercourse between the east and the west periodic epidemics were mere common daring during their continuance and these seem to have culminated in the fourteenth century with what la is known mown in history as the black death the black death was more fatal to hu hn man life than any other single cause wa W began the havoc of w aar ar 1 owe pt w a its ts path such misery and destitution as the world had never known it killed in three years some 26 25 of people such figures stagger the conil relie but the records of the time cannot bo be doubted the entire population of en ell rope is estimated to lia havo liao o been about kept down dawn as the constant warfare and of those these at least a fourth perished the ravages of the plague in italy vs here it came in the trick of the war of the Guel plis and wag particularly diba disastrous to mankind it raged with terrible fury in naples where 60 persons are sai sail I 1 to ba have e died it fell upon pigi and seven out of as ON cry ten perished it utterly an I 1 for ever destroyed the prosperity of siena florence orenco also suffered be ua berely alile wl lie of the inhabitants of N caco were ere literally wiped off the face ct f th the earth 1 rom italy it mod mo d intolerance into where the mortality win wu abi rbi all i st as ai great in paris alono 50 i Orlo duyl from it of the ft iturea pro belated bytho by the I 1 astory of the blick bl wk death vias as the cruel persecution it aroused against the jews they were suppose owl 1 to have infected the tile air in fit some mys jenoua manner an 1 they were accused of having pol poisoned boned the wells and springs in ili strassburg 2 of them were buried alive in their awu 1 W groan gronal 1 fhe order of the tho aloe alo e at tins this time coining coming aroi i the axi br I 1 tl tj it 1 l the 1119 of tho 01 d ha 1 nt lust t df ag t down the wrath of heaven it ans 1 I as ti t beginning of the tile w u calle 1 1 ira il years that I 1 ar ried the I 1 ll biml ial I 1 ath into aug fug where ia LOJ loa ion loft its te ims arns nun bared NN liui at lint the plague had it siaa it doubled back over its churbe courbe u I 1 d i pear in the cast east iu in 1845 it ill al p 1 gaiu in filst groug il if acl liters of Kich moad after tho the I 1 glattli aid ft f bos orth I 1 beld nud and wl en ell ti tie e vitto rious arroy marched to jou loo im plague went with liens tl em to anaik mk its havoc there aa As ion lob us a it lue I 1 tho mortality was aa an great as 11 1 at by the black death halt a be tore fore I 1 ivo tl ti ausan I 1 people died die in fit five weeks and then the plague life loii lou ion lon As suddenly Bud denly as it bad appeared there to sweep over the rest of england in ili scotland the plague of 1663 1568 tame cattle immediately after tho the battle of lai g side bide when queen mary was dethrone t but no records of tho the mortality it oca cloned seem to hive been ken preserve I 1 tho the plague visited london in ili 1675 this followed after tl ti it cai cal il war A aich ended with the death of charles 11 II but so miny years intern intervened ned that it is mi im possible poe sible to trace any connection between the two events in modern inars v ars danger from tho the plague seems gradually to have Iss lessened ened perhaps as a it result of 0 better sanitary conditions maintained by the armies of today philadelphia press |