Hamburg Hospital during Great Northern War plague outbreak, 1746, Prussia, now Germany Stock Image
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Hamburg Hospital during Great Northern War plague outbreak, 1746, Prussia, now Germany. Copperplate engraving by C. Fritzsch
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Keywords
- The Black Death
- Pestilence
- Pest
- Great Plague
- Black Plague
- devastating pandemics
- hospitals
- 1746
- Hamburg
- doctor
- wig
- amputation
- priest administers
- extremeuncion
- Great Northern War
- Circum-Baltic
- East-Central Europe
- severe outbreak
- pandemic
- Copperplate engraving
- Fritzsch
- army routes
- Prussia
- depopulation
- several waves
- infection
- starvation
- buboes
- recurred annually
- Cordons sanitaire
- central quarantine station
- Plague houses
- human history
- 18th Century
- engraving
- outbreak
- escape by boats
- pile of corpses