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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.
John Paulitious (died June 1645) was Edinburgh's first plague doctor. [1] [2] [3] He died in June 1645 of bubonic plague within weeks of tending the sick. [3]At the time, there was a severe epidemic of this disease in Edinburgh; [1] it's believed that there were only about 60 men around to defend the city at the height of the epidemic.
Niall Ó Glacáin [6] (sometimes anglicised as Nial O'Glacan; [2] [7] c. 1563 – 1653) was an Irish physician and plague doctor who worked to treat victims of bubonic plague outbreaks throughout continental Europe. He was a physician to Hugh Roe O'Donnell and King Louis XIII.
Plague doctor contract; Plague doctor costume; Old St. Paul's, A Tale of the Plague and the Fire, novel by Harrison Ainsworth; Plague! The Musical, a 2008 musical by David Massingham and Matt Townend about the Great Plague of London "Ring a Ring o' Roses", a nursery rhyme, commonly believed to have arisen at this time; San Francisco plague of ...
Dr. Richard Fawcett, a health officer for Deschutes County, said the cat involved in the recent case was "very sick" and had a draining abscess, which indicated “a fairly substantial" infection.
The traditional hunters would not hunt a sick Marmot and it was taboo to eat the fat from under the arm (the axillary lymphatic gland that often harboured the plague) so outbreaks tended to be confined to single individuals. The price increase, however, attracted thousands of Chinese hunters from Manchuria who not only caught the sick animals ...
Humans and pets suspected to be sick with plague are typically treated with antibiotics, and sometimes with other medical measures. Plague symptoms can manifest in a few ways. Bubonic plague ...
State health officials believe a resident picked up the plague from their very sick pet cat. Thankfully, there were no fatalities; the resident's illness was caught in its early stages, and the ...