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Title: | The beginning of Malta's worst plague outbreak in 1675 |
Authors: | Grima, Joseph F. |
Keywords: | Patients -- Malta -- History Malta -- History -- Knights of Malta, 1530-1798 Plague -- Malta -- History Yersinia infections -- Malta -- History Public health -- Malta |
Issue Date: | 2019-12-22 |
Publisher: | Allied Newspapers Limited |
Citation: | Grima, J. F. (2019, December 22). JThe beginning of Malta's worst plague outbreak in 1675. Sunday Times of Malta, pp. 56-57. |
Abstract: | On December 24, 1675, Christmas Eve, the physician Dr Giacomo Cassia was called by a prosperous Valletta merchant of textiles Matteo Bonnici, to attend to his sick 11-year-old daughter who had suddenly fallen ill with a high fever. This is the beginning of Malta’s worst plague outbreak in 1675. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/69138 |
Appears in Collections: | Melitensia Works - ERCWHMlt |
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