Bubonic Plague - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: bubonic plagueBubonic plague
a severe and often fatal disease caused by infection with the bacterium Yersinia pestis formerly Pasteurella pestis transmitted to man by the bite of fleas themselves usually infected by biting infected rodents It is characterized by the formation of buboes most notably on the groin and armpits and accompanied by weakness and high fever The disease was known as the black death and was responsible for several devastating plagues throughout the middle ages When lungs became infected the disease was called the pneumonic plague It is still found occasionally in poor areas of undeveloped countries but is rare in developed countries...
Plague
Plague [fr., Gk., a wound], pestilence; a contagious and malignant fever.By 1 Jac. 1, c. 31, it was a capital offence for any infected with the plague, after having been commanded by the mayor or constable, etc., to keep house, to go abroad and in company. This Act was repealed by 7 Wm. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 91, s. 4. See now Public Health Act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 55),ss. 134-140; repealed as from October, 1936, and replaced by ss. 143-170, Public Health Act, 1936; and tits. PUBLIC HEALTH; QUARANTINE, post. For an account of the Great Plague in London in 1665, see Pepys's Diary....
Plagueful
Abounding or infecting with plagues pestilential as plagueful exhalations...
Plagueless
Free from plagues or the plague...
Rinderpest
A highly contagious distemper or murrain affecting neat cattle and less commonly sheep and goats called also cattle plague Russian cattle plague and steppe murrain...
Bills of mortality
Bills of mortality, returns of the deaths which occur within a certain district.It was with the view of communicating to the inhabitants of London, to the Court, and the constituted authorities of the city, accurate information respecting the increase or decrease in the number of deaths and the casualties of mortality occurring amongst them, that the bills of mortality were commenced in London after a visitation of the plague in 1592, but they were not continued uninterruptedly until the occurrence of another plague in 1603, from which period, up to the present time, they have been continued from week to week; excepting during the Great Fire, when the deaths of two or three weeks were given in one bill.In 1605, the parishes comprised within the bills of mortality included the 97 parishes within the walls, 16 parishes without the walls, and six contiguous out-parishes in Middlesex and Surrey.In 1626, the city of Westminster was included in the bills; in 1636, the parishes of Islington, ...
Bubonic
Of or pertaining to a bubo or buboes characterized by buboes...
Galban
A gum resin exuding from the stems of certain Asiatic umbelliferous plants mostly species of Ferula The Bubon Galbanum of South Africa furnishes an inferior kind of galbanum It has an acrid bitter taste a strong unpleasant smell and is used for medical purposes also in the arts as in the manufacture of varnish...
bloodsucking
drawing blood from the body of another as a plague of bloodsucking insects...
Impest
To affict with pestilence to infect as with plague...
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