Burying victims of the Plague of London (1665) at night in multiple graves. Two of men are smoking pipes, partly to combat stench of corpses, partly in the hope that Tobacco smoke would prevent them becoming infected. Copperplate engraving.
Britain; England; Medicine; Disease; Epidemic; Bubonic; Plague; Burial; English; Literature
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Consigning bodies of the plague to a communal grave in the plague pit - Plague of London, 1665. Illustration by John Franklin (fl 1800-61) for W Harrison Ainsworth Old Saint Pauls, London, 1855, first published 1841
Religion; Christian; Medicine; Disease; Epidemic; Bubonic; Plague; Black; Death
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Flagellant: 16th century woodcut by Jost Amman. Sect, founded 1260, whipped themselves until blood ran in order to obtain God's mercy and to appease his wrath for the sins of mankind. During time of Plague they would process through the streets.
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Title page of mortality bill for London for 1664/5, covering part of the period of the Great Plague. John Graunt (1620-1674) based his statistical analysis on these weekly and yearly tables.
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