1580
PANDEMIC II. Started on the north coast of Africa in Algiers and Morocco, in May, also in the Island of Malta.
Spread to the U. S. A. (Authority, Fonseca of Madrid.)
England ravaged August, September, October, November.
Rome, 9,000 persons died.
Barcelona, Cadiz, Cordova, Seville, Madrid and other Spanish cities are said to have been depopulated.
The Spanish Physicians bled their patients, this venesection is said to have been very fatal; those who were not bled, most lived.
Thomas Short, London, 1587, states on page 9, “All had the Coccoluche; few died except those who were bled or had unsound Viscera.”
Anna, wife of Philip I. of Spain, died of the disease.
Pope Gregory XIII. was given up for death, but recovered.