In the last decade of the 19th century the chief discoveries were of the bacillus of influenza (1892), of the bacillus of plague (1894) and of the bacillus of dysentery (1898). { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_SR' }}, name: "_pubcid", Appraisals of consistency may, of course, be notoriously difficult (consider, for example, the surprising discoveries of paradoxical inconsistencies that plagued set theory and semantics in the early twentieth century). { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '448837' }}, : Epizootics, such as outbreaks of cattle plague or foot and mouth disease, have repeatedly wreaked economic havoc without making people sick. By contrast, the opposition parties have been plagued by dissention and disarray, and appear to be less of a threat to the regime today than they were a decade ago. Plague appears to have been equally persistent and destructive on the mainland in southern China during the period indicated, but no accurate details are available. In those days the frequent visitation of plagues made men fear the gathering together of multitudes. A government Department of Agriculture, created in 1904, affords help to the farmers in various ways, notably in combatting insect plagues, in experimental farms, and in improving the breed of horses, sheep and cattle. { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195464', size: [120, 600] }}, { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '346698' }}, The earliest victim was an attendant named Barisch, employed in the pathological laboratory of the Vienna General Hospital, and told off to look after the animals and bacteriological apparatus devoted to the investigation of plague, cultures of which had been brought from India by the medical commissioners sent by the Royal Academy of Science in 1897. 99 examples: Since the 1970s when the terms were first coined, they have been plagued by a… When plague is prevalent in a locality, the diagnosis is easy in fairly well-marked cases of the bubonic type, but less so in the other varieties.

Those lying most to the west were the first 4 On Indian plague, see Francis, Trans. { bidder: 'onemobile', params: { dcn: '8a969411017171829a5c82bb4deb000b', pos: 'cdo_topslot_728x90' }}, Stow, Remarks on London and Westminster (1722); Robert Seymour (John Mottley), Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster (1 734, another edition 1753); William Maitland, History of London (1 739, other editions 1756, 1760, 1769, continued by John Entick 1775); John Entick, A New and Accurate History of London, Westminster, Southwark (1766); The City Remembrancer, Narratives of the Plague 1665, Fire 1666 and Great Storm 1703 (1769); A New and Compleat History and Survey, by a Society of Gentlemen (1770, revised by H. 1327), a confessor whose death is commemorated on the 16th of August; he is specially invoked against the plague.

Owing to the noxious exhalations of the surrounding forests the town is so extremely unhealthy during the hot weather as to have acquired the title of the "Abode of the Plague.". Diphtheria, long no doubt a plague among mankind, was not carefully described until by Pierre Bretonneau in 1826; and since his time our conception of this disease has been extended by the study of later, secondary and incidental phases of it, such as neuritis, which had always formed part of the diphtheritic series, though the connexion had not been detected. In 1570, 200,000 persons died in Moscow and the neighbourhood, in 1572, 50,000 at Lyons; in 1568 and 1574 plague was at Edinburgh, and in 1570 at Newcastle. Bombay, however, soon recovered herself, and in 1891 was more prosperous than ever before; but during the ensuing decade great havoc was played by plague (q.v.) St Sebastian is specially invoked against the plague. Thereafter, both class conflicts and plagues resulted in disorder and crisis, which led in many places to urban decline. bids: [{ bidder: 'rubicon', params: { accountId: '17282', siteId: '162036', zoneId: '776144', position: 'btf' }}, 'buckets': [{ An outbreak of the plague in 1555 caused the boys to return home, and for the next few years Joseph was his father's constant companion and amanuensis. Plague was suspected, but Dr Muller, who attended the man and had studied the disease in India, would not admit the diagnosis on clinical grounds, nor was it bacteriologically established until the 19th of October. One problem that has plagued the research in this area is how to operationally define desistance. Nothing is known of its natural history outside the body, but on cultivation it is apt to undergo numerous involution forms. Speaking at Leeds on the 7th of October, Gladstone said " the resources of civilization were not exhausted," adding that Parnell " stood between the living and the dead, not like Aaron to stay the plague, but to spread the plague.".

Add the power of Cambridge Dictionary to your website using our free search box widgets. Farel was called to Neuchatel in July 1538, but his position there was made untenable, though he remained at his post during a visitation of the plague. The trumpets blare to send the plagues that will free the people of God. { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195452', size: [336, 280] }}, A bubonic plague outbreak temporarily closed the theatre soon afterwards, and it was burnt down with huge losses. It did not fully gather way till 1896, when plague appeared in Bombay, but our modern knowledge of the disease dates from 1894, when it attacked Hong Kong and first presented itself to accurate observation.

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6. In 1743 the plague carried off 40,000 inhabitants. bids: [{ bidder: 'rubicon', params: { accountId: '17282', siteId: '162036', zoneId: '776156', position: 'atf' }}, The latter, hard hit by the manorial difficulties that followed the plague o~f 1348-1349, found their rents stationary or even diminishing, while the price of the commodities from which the former made their wealth had permanently risen. In 1867 an outbreak of plague was reported in Mesopotamia (Irak), among the marshes of Hindieh bordering on the lower Euphrates.

From the scantiness of population the mortality was not great, but it became clear that this is one of the endemic seats of plague.'. In 1430 the plague carried off a great number of the inhabitants. { bidder: 'openx', params: { unit: '539971070', delDomain: 'idm-d.openx.net' }}, (transitive) To harass, pester or annoy someone persistently or incessantly. { bidder: 'onemobile', params: { dcn: '8a969411017171829a5c82bb4deb000b', pos: 'cdo_mpuslot2_flex' }},

Locusts are conspicuous among the common plagues of the country. { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '446385' }}, The year 1666 (called the annus mirabilis, for it included the plague and the fire of London) was marked by fierce fighting and changes of fortune. plague epidemics, even in the latest, that in Russia in 1878-1879, and, moreover, according to the latest accounts, are not a special feature of Indian plague. Between 1536 and 1562 Turin was occupied by the French, and in 1630 it lost 8000 of its citizens by the plague. free-for-all approach to parking that plagues areas like Stapleton Road. { bidder: 'criteo', params: { networkId: 7100, publisherSubId: 'cdo_topslot' }}, These eight books of Histories, although mainly occupied with military matters, contain notices of some of the more important domestic events, such as the Nika insurrection at Constantinople in 532, the plague in 542, the conspiracy of Artabenes in 548.

{ bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195466', size: [728, 90] }}, The god-hero came from Epidaurus to the shrine at Sicyon in the form of a serpent, and the serpent sent from Epidaurus to stay a plague at Rome remained there, and a temple was erected to Aesculapius. As vicar of St Andrewthe-Great, Cambridge, he was conspicuous for his devoted attention to the sufferers from the plague. Local annals specially mention the plague of 1648, the flood of 1651 and the earthquake of 1829.

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The plague of Vienna in 1679 was very severe, causing 76,000 or probably more deaths. { bidder: 'openx', params: { unit: '539971074', delDomain: 'idm-d.openx.net' }}, Again, a comparison between ratinfested and rat-free districts in Bombay showed a much higher incidence of plague in the latter. googletag.cmd.push(function() {

Thomson, Plagues of Egypt), but the description of the relations of Moses and Aaron to the court raises many difficult questions (H. Then, there was the whole eating disorder rumor that still plagues her to this day; she still claims she never had one. 'increment': 0.01,

{ bidder: 'onemobile', params: { dcn: '8a969411017171829a5c82bb4deb000b', pos: 'cdo_rightslot_flex' }}, "Plague" was formerly divided into two chief varieties: (1) mild plague, pestis minor, larval plague (Radcliffe), peste fruste, in which the special symptoms are accompanied by little fever or general disturbance; and (2) ordinary epidemic or severe plague, pestis major, in which the general disturbance is very severe.