All 3 Uses of
Black Death
in
Arrowsmith
- That day, concealing from Gottlieb his abandonment of the quest for the fundamental nature of phage, Martin set about fighting pneumonia, before attacking the Black Death.†
Chpt 30
- To have heard him asking Sondelius about his experience in plague epidemics, one would have believed that Martin found the Black Death delightful.†
Chpt 30 *
- He heard men shrieking in delirium; a dozen times he saw that face of terror—sunken bloody eyes, drawn face, open mouth—which marks the Black Death; and once he beheld an exquisite girl child in coma on the edge of death, her tongue black and round her the scent of the tomb.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(Black Death) a phrase used in the Middle Ages to describe a plague which is estimated to have killed one to two thirds of Europe's population between 1347 and 1350