"Bubonic" Quotes from Famous Books
... days or even less, or showed signs of recovery within the same period. The proportion of cases which resulted fatally was extremely large; the infectious character of the disease quite remarkable. It was, in fact, an extremely violent epidemic attack, the most violent in history, of the bubonic plague, with which we have unfortunately become again familiar within ... — An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England • Edward Potts Cheyney |