tailieunhanh - Diseases and Disorders: Plague

The tombstone, dated 1437, stands in the churchyard of St. John’s Church in Nuremberg, Germany. The inscription on it hints at a terrible tragedy that has taken place there: Was that not sad and painful to relate, I died with thirteen of my family on the same date? Such was the effect of a devastating pestilence that had swept through not only the city of Nuremberg but almost all of Europe and much of Asia as well, starting a hundred years earlier. Because it was thought to be a punishment from God, it was called “plague,” from the Latin plaga, meaning a blow or wound inflicted by a god. By. | Plague Lizabeth Hardman LUCENT BOOKS A part of Gale Cengage Learning GALE cENGAGE Learning Detroit New York San Francisco New Haven Conn Waterville Maine London GALE i CENGAGE Learning 2010 Gale Cengage Learning ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this work covered by the copyright herein may be reproduced transmitted stored or used in any form or by any means graphic electronic or mechanical including but not limited to photocopying recording scanning digitizing taping Web distribution information networks or information storage and retrieval systems except as permitted under Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act without the prior written permission of the publisher. Every effort has been made to trace the owners of copyrighted material. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Hardman Lizabeth. Plague by Lizabeth Hardman. p. cm. -- Diseases and disorders Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4205-0145-2 hardcover 1. Plague--Juvenile literature. I. Title. 2009 232--dc22 2009011001 Lucent Books 27500 Drake Rd. Farmington Hills MI 48331 ISBN-13 978-1-4205-0145-2 ISBN-10 1-4205-0145-3 Printed in the United States of America 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 13 12 11 10 .