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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.
This costume was also worn by plague doctors during the Naples Plague of 1656, which killed 145,000 people in Rome and 300,000 in Naples. [ 31 ] [ 32 ] In his work Tractatus de Peste , [ 33 ] published at Toulouse in May 1629, [ 34 ] Irish physician Niall Ó Glacáin references the protective clothing worn by plague doctors, which included ...
A plague doctor and his typical apparel during the 17th century. The second plague pandemic was a major series of epidemics of plague that started with the Black Death, which reached medieval Europe in 1346 and killed up to half of the population of Eurasia in the next four years.
But the disease—nicknamed the “Black Death” or “Great Pestilence”—that killed more than 25 million people, about a third of Europe, in medieval times is very much still with us today.
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.
One newspaper claimed, without any factual basis, that Kinyoun had released his laboratory monkeys into San Francisco. [7] Death threats were made against him, requiring him to travel with bodyguards under an assumed name. [23] In October 1900, Kinyoun was the subject of a political cartoon about his being kicked out of his federal position.
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.
In 1466, perhaps 40,000 people died of plague in Paris. [37] During the 16th and 17th centuries, plague visited Paris for almost one year out of three. [38] The Black Death ravaged Europe for three years before it continued on into Russia, where the disease hit somewhere once every five or six years from 1350 to 1490. [39]