In his "History of France," from 417 to 591,
Gregorius speaks of a malady under the name inguinale which
depopulated the Province of Arles. In another passage this
illustrious historian of Tours says that the town of Narbonne was
devastated by a maladie des aines. We have records of epidemics
in France from 567 to 590, in which bubonic symptoms were a
prominent feature. About the middle of the fourteenth century the
bubonic plague made another incursion from the East. In 1333,
fifteen years before the plague appeared in Europe, there were
terrible droughts in China followed by enormous floods in which
thousands of people perished. There are traditions of a plague in
Tche in 1334, following a drought, which is said to have carried
off about 5,000,000 people. During the fifteen years before the
appearance of the plague in Europe there were peculiar
atmospheric phenomena all over the world, besides numerous
earthquakes. From the description of the stinking atmosphere of
Europe itself at this time it is quite possible that part of the
disease came, not from China, but originated in Southern Europe
itself. From China the route of caravans ran to the north of the
Caspian Sea, through Asia, to Tauris.
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