Ergotism

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In Ergotism, a total of 1 epidemic events are known so far. It is an illness.

Events

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1235
VN: thousands 		Outbreak of an epidemic in connection with ergotism in Limoges with mass graves.   Sequitur tanta mortalitas quod tam igne sacro quam a pestilentia multa milia hominum moriuntur. Ego una die semel in cimiterio Sancti Geraldi Lemovicensis vidi centum pauperes sepeliri; frequentius autem xxx. et l. [1] A mortality followed so that many thousands of people died, both from the sacred fire [ergotism] and from the pestilence. On one day, I myself saw a hundred poor people buried in the cemetery of Saint Gerald of Limoges; more frequently, however, thirty and fifty. (Translation: Martin Bauch)

References

  1. ↑ • Gérard de Frachet: Chronicon Girardi de Fracheto et anonymam ejusdem operis continuatio. In: Recueil des historiens des Gaules et de la France. Nouvelle édition. Bd. 21: Contenant la deuxième livraison des monuments des règnes de Saint Louis, de Philippe le Hardi, de Philippe le Bel, de Louis X, de Philippe V et de Charles IV, depuis MCCXXVI, jusqu'en MCCCXXVIII (= Recueil des historiens des Gaules et de la France. Nouvelle édition). Imprimerie impériale, Paris 1855, pp. 1-70 , p. 4.
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