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 | | Similarly, during the epidemics, physicians and medical writers in various parts of Europe had to deal with questions of the nature of medical knowledge and the extent of the doctor's ethical responsibility to the ill. Medical consilia from each of the three areas include discussions of each of these issues. | | | Collections of texts and images, since they do represent multiple points of view, are ideal ways to accurately convey the multi-faceted nature of human reality. | | | Yet medical tracts, moral treatises and papal proclamations make clear that for most Europeans there were, within the medieval world view, rational explanations for what was happening. |
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| | The Plague - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Plague represents how the world deals with the philosophical notion of the Absurd, a theory which Camus himself helped to define. | | | Although his approach in the book is severe, he emphasizes the ideas that we ultimately have no control, irrationality of life is inevitable, and he further illustrates the human reaction towards the ‘absurd’. | | | It asks a number of questions relating to the nature of destiny and the human condition. |
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| | Writers wrote of preventative measures, causes and recommended cures, which led to the basic medical practices and sanitation practices of the time. | | | This time she ordered physicians to produce cures and preventative medicine. | | | The symptoms associated with plague are bubos, which are painful swellings of the lymph nodes. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Plague |
| | Many preventive measures, such as sanitation, killing of rats, and prevention of the transport of rats in ships arriving from ports in which the disease is endemic, are effective in reducing the incidence of plague. | | | Sedatives are used to reduce pain and to quiet delirium. | | | In bubonic plague, the first symptoms are headache, nausea, vomiting, aching joints, and a general feeling of ill health. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: The Plague (Essential.penguin S.): Books |
| | Through this device, Camus’ is able to examine the behaviour of the townspeople as the threat of death becomes ever closer. | | | That evil changes faces, but always reappears, and it is again time to make choices, and decide what kind of attitude we will take. | | | In a sense, we each get a glimpse of what we, too, may think about life in the last hours and days before our own deaths. |
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| | eMedicine - CBRNE - Plague : Article by Demetres Velendzas, MD |
| | No chest radiograph pattern is characteristic of plague, but bilateral interstitial infiltrates are most commonly seen. | | | Medicine is a constantly changing science and not all therapies are clearly established. | | | A sudden increase in the incidence of severe pneumonia in previously healthy individuals should raise concern for pneumonic plague. |
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| | Amazon.com: Plague : The Mysterious Past and Terrifying Future of the World's Most Dangerous Disease: Books: Wendy Orent |
| | While Dr. Orent told me that some forms of plague transmitted directly from human to human, the horror of the situation did not come through until I read her very convincing book. | | | Without resorting to alarmism, Orent cautions the world that plague is still out there, in nature and in laboratories, waiting for a chance to spread again. | | | Why did some plague eruptions seem to require transmission through rats and rat fleas while others transmitted directly from human to human? |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743236858?v=glance
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| | Guardian Unlimited The Guardian A hero for our times |
| | Camus's insistence on placing individual moral responsibility at the heart of all public choices cuts sharply across the comfortable habits of our own age. | | | Camus, like the narrator, refuses to "become an over-eloquent eulogist of a determination and heroism to which he attaches only a moderate degree of importance". | | | As Tarrou puts it, "You just need to give them the opportunity." |
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| | plague * Encyclopedia of Plague and Pestilence... |
| | Protocol for a Plague AIDS Research, Access to LifeSaving Therapies, and Drug Approval The Politics of AIDS Series, Volume 5. | | | A Plague of Frogs The Horrifying True Story. | | | Medicine before the Plague Practitioners and their Patients in the Crown of Aragon, 12851345. |
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| | CDC Plague Home Page - CDC Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases (DVBID) |
| | They are usually associated with infected rats and rat fleas that live in the home. | | | Male Xenopsylla cheopis (oriental rat flea) engorged with blood. | | | Today, modern antibiotics are effective against plague, but if an infected person is not treated promptly, the disease is likely to cause illness or death. |
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http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/plague
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| | Plague |
| | Naturally the death rate was highest among the clergy and the doctors whose professions brought them in close contact with the sick and dying. | | | Its loathsomeness and deadliness did not herd people together in an air of mutual distress, rather it prompted their desire to escape one another. | | | There must have been great die offs of the rats, who would have been struck by the plague first, but if there were, no one saw it sufficiently unusual to comment on it. |
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http://www.hyw.com/books/history/Plague.htm
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| | Amazon.co.uk: The Plague Dogs [1982]: DVD |
| | In this story when they escape their freedom turns out to be almost as bad the experiences they have escaped from only to become a struggle for survival on the moors. | | | My eyes have been opened to the Kafkaesque problems experienced by terrified and vulnerable people as they struggle to understand what is happening to them and also to survive in a strange and unwelcoming country. | | | The fear and confusion of the central charaters, Rowf and Snitter, in The Plague Dogs seems to me to symbolise the experiences of asylum seekers who have escaped from the horrors of their own countries only to face new terrors, alienation, hunger and rejection in the places to which they escape. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00006JI1H
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| | MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Plague |
| | Certain forms of the plague can be spread from human to human. | | | Calling your health care provider Return to top | | | Patients with the plague need immediate treatment withing 24 hours of initial symptom development, or death may be unavoidable. Treatment consists of antibiotics such as streptomycin, chloramphenicol, or tetracycline. |
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http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000596.htm
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| | The Plague of 1665 |
| | A pair of rats in the perfect environment could breed many off-spring. | | | A popular belief during the plague was that the disease was caused by dogs and cats. | | | The cramped living conditions these people lived in, and the fact that so many actually lived in the slum areas of London, meant that many people could not avoid contact with either the rats or someone who had the disease. |
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| | The Plague |
| | By the fourth or fifth day,wild anxiety and terror overtake the sufferer-and then a sense of resignation, as the skin blackens and the rictus of death settles on the body (Smithsonian, 70). | | | Also,Sulfadizine is used for the virus if antibiotics are not available.There is no known cure for the virus, but there are drugs that help some of the side effects less severe. | | | Subcutaneous hemorrhaging occurs, causing purplish blotches on the skin.The victims nervous system begins to collapse,causing dreadful pain and bizarre neurological disorders, from which the "Dance of Death" rituals that accompanied the plague may have taken their inspiration. |
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| | Plague, Peste - ProvenceBeyond |
| | This, however, tended to weaken the patients even more, and had the added effect of infecting the doctors and medical staff with the desease. | | | It was during this time that Nostradamus was having a renowned success treating plague victims, using such controversial methods as cleanliness. | | | This first visitation was only a preview of the famous "black death" that was to follow. |
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| | plague - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about plague |
| | Three Men In A Boat (To Say Nothing Of The Dog) by Jerome, Jerome K. View in context | | | It was not until the 1890s that the medical community discovered the cause of the plague: the bacterium Yersinia pestis, a parasite carried by rats. | | | According to a World Health Organization report published in 1996, the incidence of plague is on the increase. |
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| | Urban Legends Reference Pages: Language (Ring Around the Rosie) |
| | A reference to the practice of burning the bodies of those who succumbed to the plague. | | | A reference to the practice of burning the homes of plague sufferers to prevent spread of disease. | | | A representation of the "pus or infection under the skin in the sores" of plague victims. |
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| | The London Plague 1665 |
| | The real effect of this was that there were fewer natural enemies of the rats who carried the plague fleas, so the germs spread more rapidly. | | | The plague germs were carried by fleas which lived as parasites on rats. | | | Guards were posted at the door to see that no one got out. |
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| | Ian Jessiman : The Plague, England and Loughborough 1539 - 1640 |
| | However, there also exists evidence that human transmission alone has been responsible. | | | This bacillus is primarily an internal parasite of wild rodents, such as rats, mice and squirrels, for whom the resulting illness may be acute, subacute, or chronic. | | | There is evidence to support the view that the concentrations of plague mortality in towns were often in isolated pockets, often on the outskirts, not in the centre; suggesting rats, not humans were the vectors of transmission. |
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| | Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe |
| | This project involves the creation of a hypertext archive of narratives, medical consilia, governmental records, religious and spiritual writings and images documenting the arrival, impact and response to the problem of epidemic disease in Western Europe between 1348 and 1530. | | | When completed researchers will be able to follow themes and issues geographically across Europe in any given time period or chronologically from the first cases of bubonic plague in 1348 to the early sixteenth century. | | | Unless otherwise noted, items published by the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities are copyrighted by the authors and may be shared in accordance with the Fair Use provisions of U.S. copyright law. |
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| | Thuc. 2.47-55:The Plague |
| | It was said that it had broken out in many places previously in the neighborhood of Lemnos and elsewhere; but a pestilence of such extent and mortality was nowhere remembered. | | | Men now coolly ventured on what they had formerly done in a corner, and not just as they pleased, seeing the rapid transitions produced by persons in prosperity suddenly dying and those who before had nothing succeeding to their property. | | | [1] Nor was this the only form of lawless extravagance which owed its origin to the plague. |
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| | The Plague |
| | The little evidence that remains suggests Richmond suffered in much the same way as the rest of the country. | | | The speed with which it did so was astonishing. | | | The Plague spread rapidly through Europe and in less than a year had reached England. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: The Wordsworth Encyclopedia of Plague and Pestilence (Wordsworth Reference S.): Books |
| | A reference work on the subject of plague and pestilence, each detailed entry includes: a description of the epidemic; when and where a particular epidemic began; how and why it happened; who it affected; how it spread and ran its course; and its outcomes and significance. | | | Publisher: learn how customers can search inside this book. | | | Join our Associates Programme and make money from your website! |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1853267538
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| | Covington Cross: The Plague - TV.com |
| | Against his family's wishes, Cedric risks his life to help them, brining up painful memotries of his mother's death at the hands of the illness. | | | Tell the world what you think of The Plague. | | | Cedric is enchanted by a peasant woman and three orphans, all stricken with the plague. |
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| | septicemic plague - definition of septicemic plague in Encyclopedia |
| | The initial symptoms of headache, weakness, and coughing with hemoptysis are indistinguishable from other respiratory illnesses. | | | The disease can be effectively treated with antibiotics, however. | | | It is primarily a disease of rodents, particularly marmots (in which the most virulent strains of plague are primarily found), but also black rats, prairie dogs, chipmunks, squirrels and other similar large rodents. |
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| | BBC NEWS Africa Algeria hit by plague outbreak |
| | However, effective treatment methods such as antibiotics and supportive therapy enable almost all plague patients to be cured if diagnosed in time. | | | Plague is primarily a disease of rodents which can affect humans, the WHO notes. | | | The WHO said preliminary studies had been carried out but more work was needed to establish the source of the plague which has taken both bubonic and septicaemic forms. |
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| | CDC Plague Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) About Plague |
| | Plague is a disease caused by Yersinia pestis (Y. | | | Early in the response to a bioterrorism attack, these drugs would be tested to determine which is most effective against the particular weapon that was used. | | | Pneumonic plague affects the lungs and is transmitted when a person breathes in Y. |
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| | His expressed intention was not to suggest causes or to identify the illness, but to provide as complete and accurate a description as possible so that the illness could be recognized should it ever recur in the future (in this he showed the influence of the Hippocratic emphasis on prognosis). | | | Thucydides' emphasis on the social and moral effects of the Athenian plague may be augmented by studies of the effects of the Black Death in Europe (for example, Millard Meiss, Painting in Florence and Siena after the Black Death, 1978). | | | Thucydides' himself suffered from the plague and recovered; thus he was an eyewitness to the catastrophe (might this have affected his reportage of it?). |
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| | Many simply thought that plague was God's punishment for sin. | | | Nurses were hired to take in food and carry out basic care, and guards were set on watch to make sure that the sick (or their families) did not escape. | | | Plague was the most feared disease of all: people died of it every year, and the Black Death pandemic – which had killed nearly one third of Europe's population (20 million people) in the 1300s – still lived on in folk memory. |
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| | SparkNotes: The Plague: Summary |
| | When a cluster of similar cases appears, Dr. Rieux's colleague, Castel, becomes certain that the illness is the bubonic plague. | | | They indulge in selfish personal distress, convinced that their pain is unique in comparison to common suffering. | | | He dies clutching his crucifix, but the symptoms of his illness do not match those of the plague. |
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| | plague.htm |
| | Scientific and medical, social, and religious responses to the Plague. | | | A Look at History - The Plague : A doctor explores the causes, treatment, and control of pestilential outbreak. | | | PLAGUE AND PUBLIC HEALTH IN RENAISSANCE EUROPE : A thorough introduction to the plague. |
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| | The Black Death: Bubonic Plague |
| | Plague causes fever and a painful swelling of the lymph glands called buboes, which is how it gets its name. | | | The disease also causes spots on the skin that are red at first and then turn black. | | | The bubonic plague mainly affects rodents, but fleas can transmit the disease to people. |
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| | Mr. Dowling's Bubonic Plague Page |
| | The plague was also referred to as "the Black Death” because the skin of diseased people turned a dark gray color. | | | Groups known as flagellants tried to atone for the sins of the world by inflicting punishments upon themselves. | | | People were often advised to not bathe because open skin pores might let in the disease. |
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| | Camus, Albert: The Plague |
| | Together, the epigraph and the body of the novel invite a discussion of literary theories of representation, and particularly, because of the subject matter and its treatment, of the representation of illness and related topics. | | | Over the long ten months Rieux, his acquaintances, friends, colleagues and fellow citizens labor, each in his own way, with the individual and social transformations caused by the all-consuming illness. | | | As the epigraph makes clear, imprisonment by the plague is a metaphor for other forms of occupation. |
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| | The Black Death, 1348 |
| | One theory is that a group of infected Tartars besieged a Genoese outpost on the coast. | | | A second variation - pneumonic plague - attacked the respiratory system and was spread by merely breathing the exhaled air of a victim. | | | The plague presented itself in three interrelated forms. |
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| | The Bubonic Plague or "Black Death" was a fatal disease spread by fleas which lived on rats and humans. | | | More painful welts would appear all over the person's body until the infection was so bad that the person died usually within three days. | | | Many people are dying without the Sacrament of Penance." Rome announced an emergency relaxation of canonical law, permitting the dying to confess aloud to God or to any person who would listen, "even to a woman."' |
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| | John Graunt's "Bills of Mortality" IV |
| | The which effects must surely be rather attributed to change of the Air, then of the Constitution of Mens bodies, otherwise then as this depends upon that. | | | The which shews, that the Contagion of the Plague depends more upon the Disposition of the Air, then upon the Effluvia from the Bodies of Men. | | | part more died of the Plague then are returned for such; which we further prove by noting, that Anno 1636. |
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| | The plague |
| | This site is supported by The University of Victoria and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. | | | The Elizabethans had no idea that the plague was spread by fleas that had lived on rats; though there were many "cures" for the plague, the only real defense--for those who could afford it--was to leave the crowded, rat-infested cities for the country. | | | Take yarrow, tansy, featherfew, of each a handful, and bruise them well together, then let the sick party make water into the herbs, then strain them, and give it the sick to drink. |
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| | Rambert may not be an Oran citizen, or a Jew, or a homosexual, or a Communist, yet he is "punished" all the same. | | | The effects of the plague on the various characters illuminates other fascist parallels. | | | But as the plague's evil nears, he becomes a different person; his actions are almost like a "collaborator." He treats strangers more kindly, hoping to get "witnesses" to "say I'm not really a bad kind of man" (54). |
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| | Plague - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Plague is the stage name of a US wrestler | | | This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. | | | The widespread stomach virus epidemic at Kellenberg Memorial High School which lasted for two weeks in January 2006 was often referred to as "The Plague". |
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| | Missing lab mice infected with plague |
| | The research lab, located at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, is operated by the Public Health Research Institute, a center for infectious disease research. | | | Scientists, however, said with modern antibiotics, plague can be treated if quickly diagnosed and is not the scourge that wiped out a third of Europe during the 14th century. | | | The mice reportedly were infected with the bacterium Yersinia pestis that causes bubonic and other forms of plague. |
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| | Plague (WebBible Encyclopedia) - ChristianAnswers.Net |
| | The darkness covered "all the land of Egypt" to such an extent that "they saw not one another." It did not, however, extend to the land of Goshen. | | | The last and most fearful of these plagues was the death of the first-born of man and of beast (Ex. | | | The plagues of Egypt were ten in number: |
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| | WHO Plague |
| | When rapidly diagnosed and promptly treated, plague may be successfully managed with antibiotics such as streptomycin and tetracycline, reducing mortality from 60% to less than 15%. | | | One of the oldest identifiable diseases known to man, plague remains endemic in many natural foci around the world. | | | Essentially a disease of wild rodents, plague is spread from one rodent to another by flea ectoparasites and to humans either by the bite of infected fleas or when handling infected hosts. |
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| | BBC NEWS Technology Deadly plague hits Warcraft world |
| | The spread of the disease could have been limited by the fact that Hakkar is difficult to kill, so some realms may not yet have got round to killing him and unleashing his parting shot. | | | The infection was only supposed to affect those in the immediate vicinity of Hakkar's corpse but some players found a way to transfer it to other areas of the game by infecting an in-game virtual pet with it. | | | The first server, or "realm" as Blizzard calls them, affected by the plague was Archimonde; but it is known to have spread to at least two others. |
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| | You might even say it evolved and sought self-propagation, just as any lifeform would do. | | | Your use of this website constitutes acceptance of the Lycos Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions | | | Partially to blame was the game's "hearthstone" feature, which allows players to essentially teleport from one area to another, and which made it possible for the plague to reach the most distant regions of the map in just minutes. |
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| | The Plague Message Board |
| | The plague is a comment about the evil inherent in all human life... | | | The plague is about the fact that whilst life is inherently meaningless we can transcend that and give it meaning | | | The plague is a metaphor for the occupation |
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| | The Plague Dogs (1982) |
| | Many things about Plague Dogs will stick in your mind for years. | | | The acting and direction feels very much like a live action film. | | | I first saw Plague Dogs when I was about 4 years old, right after I first saw Watership Down. |
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| | A vaccine is available to people at high risk of exposure who travel into infested areas | | | Pest control would have been poor in those days, and in times of hunger (not unusual in those days) wild rats would become desperate, looking for food in the vicinity of human habitats, then die. | | | This would force their fleas to find a new victim, and that is why famine was often followed by the Plague. |
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| | State Park Near Truckee Closed Because of Plague |
| | Now, antibiotics are effective against plague, although it can still cause death if a person is not treated promptly. | | | Officials confirmed plague was found in two squirrels and a cat. | | | Millions of people died from the plague in Europe during the Middle Ages when buildings were inhabited by flea-infested rats. |
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