THE PLAGUE: MEDICAL AND HISTORICAL CHARACTERIZATION. REPRESENTATION IN LITERATURE (CASE STUDY: “A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR BY DANIEL DEFOE”)

Romanian Journal of Infectious Diseases | Vol. XVI, No. 3, Year 2014

ISSN 1454-3389 | e-ISSN 2069-6051
ISSN-L 1454-3389
DOI: 10.37897/RJID

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Ionut Isaia Jeican, Florin Ovidiu Botis and Dan Gheban

ABSTRACT

The article presents the medical and historical characterization of the pest from the perspective of current scientific knowledge, together with the descriptions outlined in Defoe’s novel “A Journal of the Plague Year” regarding the medical aspects of this pathology

Keywords: Plague, Yersinia Pestis, A Journal of the Plague Year, Daniel Defoe

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