Posts Tagged ‘Europe’

Dealing with catastrophes has always been a problem for mankind. In Europe, which was ravaged with plagues between the early 1500′s to 1670 or so (about every 15 years one hit), with over 2 million dying in France alone in the first 70 years of the 17th Century, mankind devised all kinds of “remedies” and sought to know the underlying reasons for such plagues. In 1636 a London epidemic caused the deaths of 10,400 people between April and December. But all over Europe in the mid 1500′s and through much of the 1600′s disease was a foe that was unstoppable. It rose as the tide, coming in on the continent, flooding the land with bodies, then receding, only to return again some years later with the same deadly consequences. Read the rest of this entry »