. American history:. Hume makes no mention of It: Lingard gives a thrillinji account of horrors. The diseasepenerally manifested itself by the usual febrile symptoms of sliivering, nausea, headache, anddelirium—then a sudden f^untness—the victim became spotted on the breast, and within anliour life was extinct But few recovered from the disease, and death followed within two orthree days from the lirst symptoms. During; one week, in .September, more than ten thousanddied. The whole number of victims was more than one hundred In September of the following year, 1666, occurred th
. American history:. Hume makes no mention of It: Lingard gives a thrillinji account of horrors. The diseasepenerally manifested itself by the usual febrile symptoms of sliivering, nausea, headache, anddelirium—then a sudden f^untness—the victim became spotted on the breast, and within anliour life was extinct But few recovered from the disease, and death followed within two orthree days from the lirst symptoms. During; one week, in .September, more than ten thousanddied. The whole number of victims was more than one hundred In September of the following year, 1666, occurred the great fire of lyondon, by which thir-teen thousand two hundred dwellings were consumed, and two hundreil tlious:ni(l people leftdestitute. Two-thirds of the metropolis were reduced to aslies. Londou became much morehealthy after the fire, and the plagu(^ which formerly broke out twice or thrice every century,and indeed was always lurking in some corner of the city, has scarcely ever appeared sincetha( r.^ Mi ^ftm terilr the ;,^gg^;^ TifiihiBiw. IkvaisimlnMriftMdhitihift tk»En»«r^»4 Oiiijjfcit °«mM Btvcr ski*«- tkoKetv^ Mawwufcy «f Bfcut* ¥r ■iitinL »au»«>K^ «,.^^,,...i rf it; aesew^. ^tkw « m» Wttar »» g> »r —TieviA vhick MassMhascos 4MteielA« g»-*«» «f ^
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