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Sometimes it also causes gangrene of the extremities--
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and I will also have a picture of that--
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and this may, in fact, be the origin of the term Black Death.
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Now, in terms of the symptomatology--
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let me pass on from that to this.
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This is a Franciscan friar, Michael of Piazza,
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a chronicler--you'll remember I said
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Messina was the first place to be afflicted by bubonic plague in 1347.
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He wrote this terrifying description of how it afflicted a sufferer.
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He wrote "Not only did the burned blisters appear,
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but there developed in different parts of the body gland boils;
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in some on the sexual organs. In others"--