"Black plague" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... very bad and but the poorest sanitary rules existed. After a hard rain, the lanes, alleys and streets ran with a stream of putrefaction, as the offal from many tenement houses was thrown in the public highway, where the rays from the hot sun created malarial fever or the black plague. ...
— Shakspere, Personal Recollections • John A. Joyce
... your killing fast enough to suit me," said Mrs. Comstock. "I wouldn't touch you, any more than I would him, if I could. Once is all any man or woman deceives me about the holiest things of life. I wouldn't touch you any more than I would the black plague. I am going ...
— A Girl Of The Limberlost • Gene Stratton Porter
... as above, III. Band, pp. 1-202; also Sprengel, Baas, Isensee, et al. For brief statement showing the enormous loss of life in these plagues, see Littre, Medecine et Medecins, Paris, 1875, pp. 3 et seq. For a summary of the effects of the Black Plague throughout England, see Green's Short History of the English People, chap. v. For the mortality in the Paris hospitals, see Desmazes, Supplices, Prisons et Graces en France, Paris 1866. For striking descriptions of plague-stricken ...
— History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom • Andrew Dickson White
... how many history masters ever take the trouble to sketch in the great background, the life of the common people? How many even realize their existence, except on occasions of national disaster, such as the Black Plague? ...
— Book of Old Ballads • Selected by Beverly Nichols
... we go back to the symptoms of the disease, the ardent inflammation of the lungs points out, that the organs of respiration yielded to the attack of an atmospheric poison—a poison which, if we admit the independent origin of the Black Plague at any one place of the globe, which, under such extraordinary circumstances, it would be difficult to doubt, attacked the course of the circulation in as hostile a manner as that which produces inflammation of the spleen, and other animal ...
— The Black Death, and The Dancing Mania • Justus Friedrich Karl Hecker |
