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podcasts. Woe destruction, destruction, ruin, and decay, the worst is death, and death will have his day, William Shakespeare. The The lethal plagues that hit Europe over a span of centuries descended in terrifying waves between the 14th and early 18th centuries. Most historians believe them to have been caused mainly by the Bubonic

plague and the most dramatic and deadly of these waves is commonly referred to

as the Black Death.

The Black Death spread across Europe

in the 1340s through the 50s.

Estimates very wildly, but the Black Death snuffed out between 25 to 60 percent of the European population. Shaya Robowski, a well-known forensic medical investigator, once described the plague for

an A&E production, saying, if you are lucky enough to get the plague you would either

get the mnemonic version or the septosemic version. In the mnemonic version the

organism settles in your lungs.

And over a four or five or perhaps seven day period,

your lungs essentially just liquefy,

and you'll cough them up and die.

In the septisemic version of the plague,

the bacteria inhibits your body's ability to clot.

Essentially, you are bleeding to death from everywhere at the same time.

Giovanni Picaccio, a noted Italian Renaissance humanist, who lived through the 14th century Black

Death, wrote, and men and women alike it first betrayed itself by the emergence of certain

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