A Journal of the Plague Year

In the year 1348 the world changed forever. The Black Death, which is another name for the Bubonic Plague, laid havoc on the entire world. “The plague chases the screaming without pity and does not accept a treasure for a ransom. Its engine is far-reaching. The plague enters into the house and swears it will not leave except with all of its inhabitants…” (Al-Wardi, #29, 113). The plague did not care if the people were rich, poor, white, black, Muslim or Catholic, it would kill whomever it could. The plague brought out the worst in people because people acted selfishly, people were completely inhumane, and there was no peace.

The Great Pestilence is upon us, it infects and kills within a matter of days. People develop purple or black masses beneath the skin in the armpit and groin, experience headaches, fevers, weakness, vomiting blood, and such. It spreads at a rapid pace and we have no way to stop it. It spread through the air, blood, saliva, and almost any contact with an infected being and once you contract it you're a walking corpse, however, some people have shown a natural immunity to the disease, though determining who's resistant and who isn't is near impossible without infecting others.

The plague, otherwise known as “the Black Death”, brought on much turmoil and suffering for the habitants of Pistoia. Numerous ordinances were put into effect with the primary goal of limiting the spread of the plague as well as to keep the city as healthy as possible. These ordinances typically focused on confinement, i.e. no one goes to Pisa and Luca and no one from Pisa and Luca is allowed to enter Pistoia (ordinance 1), how death and burials are to be processed (ordinances 3-12), and how butchers were to handle their animals and animal carcasses (ordinances 13-19). Essentially, confinement was targeted in hopes of stopping the spread of the infection while keeping the city isolated. Secondly, how the bodies of plague victims and their

The book When Plague Strikes, is about 3 deadly diseases. It 's about the Black Death, Smallpox, and AIDS. Each of these diseases can cause a serious outrage of death. The book also tells about how doctors try to come up with treatments, medicines, and antibiotics to try and cure these diseases. All these diseases got the best out of everyone. Some people reacted differently than others with these diseases. All the diseases came in play in A. D. 1347, when the Black Death broke out for the first time in what’s today is know. As southern Ukraine.

From 1347 to 1352 a string of the bubonic plague lay waste to western Europe, killing millions. In Italy, nearly a third of the population died; in England, half. The plague was a looming presence, always in the back of people’s minds. The symptoms of the Black Death caused great strife for westerners. Giovanni Boccaccio, an Italian writer and poet, described the symptoms he saw during the first outbreak of the plague: “Not such were they as in the East, where an issue of blood from the nose was a manifest sign of inevitable death; but in men a women alike it first betrayed itself by the emergence of certain tumors in the groin or the armpits, some of which grew as large as a common apple, others as an egg, some more, some less, which the common folk called gavoccioli.” Both Italy and England desperately searched for answers, claiming that the Black Death was the cause of a higher force, but realising that the squalor of their countries also played a part in spreading the illness. Although Italy and England both had a common explanation for the cause of the plague and they both implemented better public health standards, they adopted different public health practices after the plague.

In this chapter it talks about how Catherine LeMaigre was dying, and dying horribly and painfully. The two physicians sent for their esteemed colleague Dr. Benjamin Rush. They were trying to find out if they could stop the plague from spreading.

The word “plague” is defined as a contagious bacterial disease characterized by fever and delirium, typically with the formation of buboes, and sometimes infection of the lungs. The article entitled, “On the Progress of the Black Death”, written by Jean de Venette, a French Carmelite friar who was a leading clergyman around Paris at the time of the Black Death, is a well-known account of the spread of the plague in Northern Europe. In this account, Jean de Venette explained the history of the plague, its causes and its consequences.

The Black Death of the mid-fourteenth century will have the greatest impact on the 16th and 17th centuries. The plague caused the European population the drop by 25 to 50 percent, induced movements and many revolts, and prompted changes in urban life. The European population dropped by 25 to 50 percent between 1347 and 1351. So, if the European population was 75 million, this would mean the 18.75 to 37.5 million people died in four years. There were also major outbreaks that lasted many years until the end of the 15th century. Mortality figures were incredibly high. As a result, the European population did not begin to recover until the 16th century. It took many generations after that to achieve thirteenth-century levels. The plague induced movements and many revolts in Europe.

The Great Plague of London occurred from 1665 to 1666 and killed thousands of people while causing harm to the English government. The plague resulted in farmers charging more money for their crops, which made a smaller gap between the rich and the poor. The Great Plague of London was a serious case of Bubonic Plague. The bacteria which caused it is Yersinia Pestis.

The Plague (French, La Peste) is a novel written by Albert Camus that is about an epidemic of bubonic plague. The Plague is set in a small Mediterranean town in North Africa called Oran. Dr. Bernard Rieux, one of the main characters, describes it as an ugly town. Oran’s inhabitants are boring people who appear to live, for the most part, habitual lives. The main focus of the town is money. “…everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits. Our citizens work hard, but solely with the object of getting rich. Their chief interest is in commerce, and their chief aim in life is, as they call it, 'doing business’” (Camus 4). The citizens’ unawareness of life’s riches and pleasures show their susceptibility to the oncoming plague.

The Great Plague killed nearly half of the European population during the fourteenth century. A plague is a widespread illness. The Illness was also known as the “Black Death”. Most of the European people believed the plague was the beginning of the end of the world. They were scarcely equipped and unready for what was to be entailed. It was by far one of the worst epidemics yet to be seen in those times.

A Journal of the Plague Year is a first person account of what it was like living through the times of the plague. It recollects stories and other accounts of plague times heard by and collected by the Defoe from other involved individuals. Explains many aspects before, during, and after the plague of their ways of life and culture. Tells of tales of survivors of the plague but mostly off different tales of deaths and how they died in many outrageous and tragic ways of people killing their families, themselves, or masses of people. The whole journal is filled with collections of stories, but also with charts showing the deaths in different parishes and how they change as the plague raged on. In the end, it tells how life went back to normal for London and Defoe and his family.

The plague in the poem In Time of Plague is HIV/AIDS. AIDS can be caused sexually or through needles in the poems case the speaker thinks “who are these two, these fiercely attractive men who want me to stick their needle in my arm?”. It then correlates that the poem’s title is talking about AIDS as the plague. This disease surrounds the speaker thoughts, but he cannot help his sexual attraction despite the plague that is happening around him “my thoughts are crowded with death and it draws so oddly on the sexual”. These thoughts are caused by the looks of Brad and John, the speaker is so captivated by their appearance and mentality of death he almost gets lost for a second “I love their daring looks…their mind is the mind of death”. This is

Mania, delirium, hysteria, and fear are words that can be used to describe the events that took place within Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year. The citizens of London were being attacked by an unknown biological enemy. The faceless opponent in which they would be afflicted is a plague that rattled their very foundation. Fear had begun to consume people mentally as well as the obvious physical affliction. Defoe utilizes both first person point of view and eye witness accounts to describe the severity of the plague. Defoe himself was only a child during the events of the plague, but recounts the story as one H.F.

It is my belief that Albert Camus’ novel The Plague represents many aspects of human suffering through a pandemic and documenting the resulting behaviors of the characters in the novel. Dr. Rieux serves as a strong willed man who is affected differently by the plague compared to most every other citizen perhaps other than Grant who keeps a level head about him. However many other people, such as Cottard, respond with overwrought emotions and corresponding action. In Cottard’s case this was an attempt at taking his own life cut short by the calm and intellectual neighbor, Grant. Most every other citizen of Oran, the main city of the novel, take to a remedial lifestyle of walking with your head down, going where is needed, getting a few drinks,