PLAGUE

is an infectious fever caused by a germ—the | bag. The former is the most usual, though many author plague bacillus—which was discovered by Kit as a to,a Japan- | ities advocate the latter. Mustard, turpentine, and blisters ese, in 1894. Infection is spread by contact of the sick with | are not recommended except by medical orders. A bell a the healthy, by infected articles, e.g., Baa g and by rats. | donna plaster or belladonna fomentations may be applied. Bad sanitary conditions and insufficient food facilitate the | All adele movement is dangerous if much fluid be present, sage of the disease. The white races are le susceptible | and until medical advice is obtained it is wise to act as the black and eit The disease is the same as the | though such fluid was present. Cases of sudden death due black-death of the Middle Ages, but it has gradually dis- | to getting out of bed to pa water have been recorded by appeared from Europe since then. The — are | Cheadle and others. fever, headache, pain in the back, deliriam; buboes or [s. 394]