It is believed that the Antonine Plague was smallpox, because though his description is incomplete, Galen gave enough information to enable a firm identification of the disease.

The Plague of Cyprian is named after him due to his description of it.

Thucydides's description of the Plague of Athens is considered one of the earliest accounts of a disease epidemic.

Cambridge: Loeb-Harvard UP, 1954 .— Chapters XXII and XXIII of Book II ( pages 451 – 473 ) are Procopius's famous description of the Plague of Justinian.

In Defoe's early life he experienced first-hand some of the most unusual occurrences in English history: in 1665, 70, 000 were killed by the Great Plague of London.

A devastating outbreak of bubonic plague ( see Plague of Justinian ) in the early 540s marked the end of an age of splendor.

However, he fell victim to the Plague of Cyprian ( possibly smallpox ), and died early in January 270.

It never had a large population during the early Third Age due to its remote location, and the Great Plague left the province virtually deserted, with many people migrating eastward during the following centuries.

It may be that his early death, during the Great Plague of 1350, at the Siege of Gibraltar, only averted a desperate struggle with Peter, though it was a misfortune in that it removed a ruler of eminent capacity, who understood his subjects well enough not to go too far.

In common with the early punk bands, various members took on stage names — Milarky became " Johnnie Plague ", Kerr became " Pripton Weird ", MacNeil chose " Sid Syphilis " and Burchill chose " Charlie Argue ".

In the early 1960s the song became a continental hit in Latin America performed by the Mexican band Los Teen Tops, whose lead singer was teen idol Enrique Guzman, and sung in Spanish under the title, " La Plaga " (" The Plague "), which actually is a Mexican Spanish slang word referring to " the gang " ( as in the " gang one hangs out with ").

In the early 1900s, Jefferson County was ravaged by an outbreak of tuberculosis ( the " White Plague ") which prompted the construction of a new hospital.

In his early years at the twin Monasteries of Wearmouth – Jarrow ( 686 ), the Plague had struck Northumbria, and ravaged most of the countryside, including the twin Monasteries.

In an early passage of A Journal of the Plague Year Daniel Defoe mentions " merry andrews " while describing the effects of the plague on London society: " All the plays and interludes which, after the manner of the French Court, had been set up, and began to increase among us, were forbid to act ; the gaming-tables, public dancing-rooms, and music-houses, which multiplied and began to debauch the manners of the people, were shut up and suppressed ; and the jack-puddings, merry-andrews, puppet-shows, rope-dancers, and such-like doings, which had bewitched the poor common people, shut up their shops, finding indeed no trade ; for the minds of the people were agitated with other things, and a kind of sadness and horror at these things sat upon the countenances even of the common people.

Primitive respirator examples were used by miners and introduced by Alexander von Humboldt already in 1799, when he worked as a mining engineer in Prussia ; long before that there was a Plague doctor's bird beak shaped mask / face piece filled with herbs.

He had been a descendant of the Israelite tribe of Issachar ; he had been educated by his grandfathers, who had both been physicians to the court of Good King René of Provence ; he had attended Montpellier University in 1525 to gain his first degree: after returning there in 1529 he had successfully taken his medical doctorate ; he had gone on to lecture in the Medical Faculty there until his views became too unpopular ; he had supported the heliocentric view of the universe ; he had travelled to the north-east of France, where he had composed prophecies at the abbey of Orval ; in the course of his travels he had performed a variety of prodigies, including identifying a future Pope ; he had successfully cured the Plague at Aix-en-Provence and elsewhere ; he had engaged in scrying using either a magic mirror or a bowl of water ; he had been joined by his secretary Chavigny at Easter 1554 ; having published the first installment of his Propheties, he had been summoned by Queen Catherine de ' Medici to Paris in 1556 to discuss with her his prophecy at quatrain I. 35 that her husband King Henri II would be killed in a duel ; he had examined the royal children at Blois ; he had bequeathed to his son a ' lost book ' of his own prophetic paintings ; he had been buried standing up ; and he had been found, when dug up at the French Revolution, to be wearing a medallion bearing the exact date of his disinterment.

The regulation of labor by the State as one of its functions dates from the 15th century, when the Black Plague killed around half of the European population.

Another local festival commemorates The Vote Day ( January 14 ), an event during the Black Plague, when the townsfolk voted for the bringing of the Virgin of the Olive across the town to worship her.

It was originally built to guard the former capital, Osgiliath, from attack from the west, but became the capital when Osgiliath fell into ruin following the Kin-strife and the Great Plague.

Ostoher rebuilt the city in as a summer residence, and it became the capital of Gondor in, when King Tarondor moved the King's House from Osgiliath following the Great Plague, which devastated the population of the much larger and populous old capital.

In 1664 Monck had charge of the admiralty when James, Duke of York, commanded the fleet, and when in 1665 much of the populace deserted London on account of the Great Plague, Monck, with all the readiness of a man accustomed to obey without thinking of risk, remained in charge of the government of the city.

The Strozzi Chapel was the place where the first tale of the Decamerone by Giovanni Boccaccio began, when seven ladies decided to leave the town, and flee from the Black Plague to the countryside.

He bought a single Turner in 1800, when the artist was only 25 ( The Fifth Plague of Egypt, £ 157. 10s ), and in 1828 William Blake's drawings for Gray's Elegy, as well as several works by Richard Parkes Bonington, but in general he preferred older works.

Plague is arrested when he tries to flee to Japan under the alias " Mr. Babbage " ( a reference to Charles Babbage ).

There were interruptions to schooling in 1665, when Parliament, forced out of London by the Great Plague, took over the schoolhouse.

She revived herself when thawed, but was still infected with the plague and died exhausted from healing SG-1 and others from the Plague.

The pictured van was where Ted Falconi lived when not on tour with the band. The follow-up studio album in 1984, Gone Fishin ', featured the opening track " The Lights, The Sound, The Rhythm, The Noise ", " Survivors of the Plague " and " Sacrifice ".

The band returned overseas for another mini-tour Black Plague Across The West, when they played in Mexico for the first time before they headed to the US and the state of California.

When he was resurrected, Optimus Prime later did the same thing when faced with the Hate Plague, and came to a drastic conclusion-to cure the madness of the plague, he expelled all of the wisdom from within the Matrix, saving the universe, but emptying the Matrix and leaving only a shell.

His presence within the Matrix when Optimus Prime consults its wisdom to stop the Hate Plague would suggest otherwise, but later expansions on the fiction of the Matrix illustrate that it is not merely Autobot leaders who inhabit it, but all deceased Transformers, explaining Trion's presence.

Perhaps the greatest blow came in the wake of the Extreme weather events of 535 – 536 and subsequent Plague of Justinian, when the remaining trade networks ensured the Plague spread to the remaining commercial cities.

He became justice of the peace for Westminster and received a knighthood in September 1666 for his services during the Great Plague when he had stayed in his post regardless of the circumstances.

The valley may have become overpopulated until the Black Plague and following plagues, when a huge proportion of the population died.

The Plague of Athens was a devastating epidemic which hit the city-state of Athens in ancient Greece during the second year of the Peloponnesian War ( 430 BC ), when an Athenian victory still seemed within reach.

This fast commemorates the salvation of the Israelite firstborns during the Plague of the Firstborn ( according to the Book of Exodus, the tenth of the ten plagues wrought upon Ancient Egypt prior to the Exodus of the Children of Israel ), when, according to Exodus ( 12: 29 ): "... God struck every firstborn in the Land of Mitzrayim ( Ancient Egypt )...."

In Transformers: The Headmasters, Goldbug and the Throttlebots were on Cybertron when Vector Sigma began to destabilize as a consequence of Optimus Prime releasing the Matrix's energy to cure the Hate Plague the previous year.

The Plague is considered an existentialist classic despite Camus ' objection to the label.

The text of The Plague is divided into five parts.

The Plague is in part a historical allegory, in which the plague signifies the German occupation of France from 1940 to 1944 during World War II.

; Bubonic plague: Plague is a disease caused by the Yersinia pestis bacterium.

The Plague of Justinian in the 6th and 7th centuries is the first known attack on record, and marks the first firmly recorded pattern of bubonic plague.

There is some controversy over the identity of the disease, but in its virulent form, after the Great Plague of Marseille in 1720 – 1722, the Great Plague of 1738 ( which hit Eastern Europe ), and the Russian plague of 1770-1772, it seems to have gradually disappeared from Europe.

Plague is a deadly infectious disease that is caused by the enterobacteria Yersinia pestis, named after the French-Swiss bacteriologist Alexandre Yersin.

Plague is still endemic in some parts of the world.

Plague is often synonymous with " bubonic plague " but this describes just one of its manifestations.

Other names have been used to describe this disease, such as " The Black Plague " and " The Black Death "; the latter is now used primarily by scholars to describe the second, and most devastating, pandemic of the disease.

Plague bacteria secrete several toxins, one of which is known to cause dangerous beta-adrenergic blockade.

A work that is often read as if it were non-fiction is his account of the Great Plague of London in 1665: A Journal of the Plague Year, a complex historical novel published in 1722.

However, it is now thought that the Plague had subsided before the Great Fire of London.

The living conditions are deplorable, human rights for the miners are few and a disease called " The Plague " is running rampant throughout the colony with no known antidote available-predominantly within the confines of the mine complex.

Capek has been experimenting with nanotechnology, and the Plague is a side-effect of injections at the miners ' annual medical checkup.

As Capek dies, he tells Eos there is a cure for the Plague but refuses to tell her how to make it and bluntly states " Hope you all Die!