Epidemic, began in May. Europe swept. Great mortality in Britain.
1693
Epidemic. Europe.
1709
Epidemic in Europe. France, Germany and Italy chiefly affected.
1712
Europe, epidemic began in Germany. Fever, cough, sense of dread and oppression, painful eyes and great backache. Rapid spread, great and prolonged exhaustion, morbidity great, nearly everyone attacked, mortality very light.
1729–30
Origin, Moscow, Russia, April, 1729. Morbidity enormous, lightning-like spread. In London great mortality, barely 1% escaped. In the month of September, 1729, over 1,000 persons died each week. Rome had some 60,000 cases. (Authority, Hahn.)