Article: Plagued with doubt.(Doctor Detective)

Article: plague
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      539 words ......disease, in particular the bubonic plague and the black plague (or Black Death), both forms of the...they are prevalent. Bubonic plague, the most common form...transmission by flea. In the black form of plague, hemorrhages...black, giving the term Black ...

Article: The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Contemporary Review;  July 1, 2005 ;     187 words ......Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death. John Kelly Fourth Estate. [pounds...364 pages. ISBN 0-00-715069-5. The Black Death or bubonic plague which devastated Asia, the Middle...and cons of the argument that the Black Death was not a 'plague pandemic' but...or ...

Article: Bubonic Plague
World of Microbiology and Immunology;      700+ words ...Bubonic plague Bubonic plague is a disease that is...an huge epidemic of bubonic plague was referred to as the Black Death, because of the blackening...recorded history. The Black Death was only one of...outbreaks likely involved bubonic plague. ...

Article: SIDE LIGHTS.(history of the bubonic plague in Europe between 1347 and 1351 )
Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication;  January 29, 1999 ;     241 words ......the worst plagues in history was the Black Death. Between 1347 and 1351, this form of bubonic plague killed an estimated 75 million people...spirits. * Doctors tried to cure the Black Death by lancing the boils. This, however...releasing germs into the environment. The Black ...

Article: The Black Death Transformed: Disease and Culture in Early Renaissance Europe.(Book Review)
Journal of Social History;  December 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ...The Black Death Transformed: Disease...xii plus 318 pp.). The Black Death of 1347-52 has long been...seemed resolved: the Black Death was the disease now known as bubonic plague. In this provocative...other than rat-based bubonic plague. (p. 1) He ...

Article: Black Death
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English;      41 words ...Black Death the great epidemic of bubonic plague that killed a large part of the population of Europe in the mid 14th century. It originated in central Asia and China and spread rapidly through Europe, carried by the fleas of black rats, reaching England in 1348.

Article: Sidelights. (brief chronology of the Black Death, a form of bubonic plague that killed about 75 million people between 1347 and 1351)
Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication;  January 29, 1996 ;     177 words ...* One of the worst plagues in history was the Black Death. Between 1347 and 1351, this form of bubonic plague killed an estimated 75 million people--one-third of Europe's entire population, devastating regions from Italy to Norway. * The...bacteria and tried to cure the disease by lancing the boils ...

Article: Time trip.(Black Death)
Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication;  January 11, 2002 ;     314 words ......Europe in the mid 1300s. That epidemic of bubonic plague, known today as the Black Death, probably began in Asia in the early 1300s...with the bacterium Yersinia pestis cause the bubonic plague. These bacteria live on rats and other rodents...

Article: The Black Death in Egypt and England: A Comparative Study.(Book review)
Journal of Social History;  September 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ...The Black Death in Egypt and England...hemorrhages caused by the bubonic plague in and after 1348 / 49...wondrous recovery from the Black Death of 1348-51 and from later visitations of bubonic plague have been shown to be...population occasioned by the Black ...

Article: Epidemics: yesterday, today ... and tomorrow. (includes related articles) (Cover Story)
Current Health 2, a Weekly Reader publication;  November 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ......communities. Strange black swellings under the...The year was 1348. The Black Death, the most terrible epidemic...population. Before the Black Death, the city of Paris held...instance, that cases of bubonic plague (the same Black Death ) are still ...

Article: The Black Death.(14th-century bubonic plague epidemic in Europe)(special report)
Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication;  October 31, 1994 ;     155 words ......was the Block Death. Between 1347 and 1351, this form of bubonic plague killed an estimated 75 million people from Italy to Norway...on their shoulders and threw them into a common pit. The Black Death left towns empty and farmers' fields untended. In once-prosperous...

Article: (book reviews)
Nutrition Health Review;  January 1, 1996 ;     634 words ......people of the time, the arrival of the Black Death and subsequent outbreaks of bubonic plague were so unexpected and mysterious...Marc Lappe, Ph.D., the history of the Black Death, along with that of more recent scourges...old disease. As happened with the Black Death, ...

Article: Dread: How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu.(Book review)
ForeWord;  May 1, 2009 ;     377 words ......Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu Work Author(s): Philip...9781586486181 Reviewer: Deirdre Sinnott The bubonic plague was an archetypical societal experience...the attention and funding due a new bubonic plague. But fear is not science, and despite...

Article: Daily Life during the Black Deat.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
SciTech Book News;  December 1, 2006 ;     112 words ...0313332975 Daily life during the Black Death. Byrne, Joseph P. Greenwood Press 2006 326 pages...Daily life through history series RC172 Known as the Black Death, the bubonic plague pandemic that ravaged the Medieval Muslim and Christian...