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continued to prevail to some extent until the end of 

 the century. 



At the beginning of the eighteenth century bubonic 

 plague prevailed in Constantinople and at various 

 points along the Danube ; from here it extended 

 in 1704 to Poland, and soon after to Silesia, Lithu- 

 ania, Germany, and the Scandinavian countries. The 

 mortality in Stockholm was about 40,000. The dis- 

 ease also extended westward from Constantinople 

 through Austria and Bohemia. 



In 1720 Marseilles suffered a severe epidemic, 

 probably as a result of the introduction of cases on a 

 ship from Leghorn. The mortality was estimated as 

 being between 40,000 and 60,000. From Marseilles 

 as a centre it spread through the province of Provence, 

 but did not invade other parts of France. In 1743 a 

 severe outbreak occurred on the island of Sicily. A 

 destructive but brief epidemic, which is estimated to 

 have caused a mortality of 300,000, occurred during 

 the years 1770 and 1771 in Moldavia, Wallachia, 

 Transylvania, Hungary, and Poland. At the same 

 time the disease prevailed in Russia, and in 1771 

 caused the death of about one-fourth of the popula- 

 tion of the city of Moscow. 



Early in the nineteenth century (1802) bubonic 

 plague appeared at Constantinople and in Armenia. 

 It had previously prevailed in the Caucasus, from 



