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Weird Plague 'Cures' (The Black Death)
The Bubonic plague, more commonly known as the Black Death due to the black ‘buboes’ that would swell in the armpits and groins of victims, decimated the population of Europe during the Middle Ages, ...
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On This Day in 1900, the Bubonic Plague Hit the Continental United States, Spiraling Into an Epidemic That Killed 119 People
The world was no stranger to plague outbreaks: The most famous, known as the Black Death, killed as many as 50 million people in Europe beginning in 1346. Scientists believe infected fleas were ...
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In the Wake of the Plague: the Black Death and the World it Made
But according to a recent book by Norman Cantor, In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World it Made, that disease also forged a new world dedicated to the proposition that men had ...