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Copper engraving of a plague doctor of 17th-century Rome. A plague doctor was a physician who treated victims of bubonic plague [1] during epidemics in 17th-century Europe. These physicians were hired by cities to treat infected patients regardless of income, especially the poor, who could not afford to pay.
Joseph James "Joe" Kinyoun was born November 25, 1860, in East Bend, North Carolina, the oldest of five children born to Elizabeth Ann Conrad and John Hendricks Kinyoun.. His family settled in Post Oak, Missouri in 1866 after his house burned down during the Civil W
The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic that occurred in Europe from 1346 to 1353. It was one of the most fatal pandemics in human history; as many as 50 million people [2] perished, perhaps 50% of Europe's 14th century population. [3] The disease is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and spread by fleas and through the air.
Bubonic plague is best known as a disease that killed more than 25 million people in medieval Europe. But it still exists—and it just showed up in Oregon after someone seemingly contracted the ...
The 17th-century plague doctors were those who visited homes trying to cure the Black Death, the bubonic plague, which over several centuries worth of outbreaks killed at least 50 million people ...
The Black Death first originated in Kyrgyzstan, in central Asia, in the late 1330s, spreading rapidly to devastate the Middle East and Europe.
He worked in Nijmegen in 1635 and 1636, during the Black Death epidemic. He wrote about his experiences in treating the plague in his 1646 work De Peste . [ 2 ] He then went to Utrecht and married Elisabeth van Gessel on 18 October 1642. [ 1 ]
The last human plague case in New Mexico involved a Torrance County resident in 2021, the agency said. Four people in the state had bubonic plague in 2020 and one died. Here’s what to know.