Typhus fever : with particular reference to the Serbian epidemic. . Fig. 1. Filled cesspool. Fig. 2. A typical Serbian town after eradication of typhus PLATE XX THE SERBIAN EPIDEMH shortly after the siege of Granada. Later L557 it becameknown in Spain under the name of el tabardillo the muchdreaded red cloak); and in this country there were repeatedepidemics. In a third epidemic in Italy in the second half of the sixteenth century, it is said to have destroyed more than onemillion people in Tuscany. In 1566 it became epidemic in tin-army of Maximilian II of Hungary and extended its ravagagain
Typhus fever : with particular reference to the Serbian epidemic. . Fig. 1. Filled cesspool. Fig. 2. A typical Serbian town after eradication of typhus PLATE XX THE SERBIAN EPIDEMH shortly after the siege of Granada. Later L557 it becameknown in Spain under the name of el tabardillo the muchdreaded red cloak); and in this country there were repeatedepidemics. In a third epidemic in Italy in the second half of the sixteenth century, it is said to have destroyed more than onemillion people in Tuscany. In 1566 it became epidemic in tin-army of Maximilian II of Hungary and extended its ravagagain over Europe, continuing for more than twenty-one the seventeenth century typhus was again one of the dis-eases which caused the highest mortality. So great were themiseries engendered by it and by the other events in connectionwith the Thirty Years War, that Haeser, writing of this periodwith reference to districts formerly well populated, says thatone could wander for miles without seeing a living soul, onlydead bodies decomposing and partially devoured by wolves,dogs, and vult
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