![]() She also tells a thoroughly forgotten story, that of the plague's early 20th century visit to San Francisco, so vividly that it may just stay remembered this time.Ī Bay Area science reporter for the Wall Street Journal - whose editorial pages often look, under a microscope, uncannily like the Chron of old - Chase here investigates the rat-borne epidemic that plagued San Francisco between 19, finding plenty of scurrilous behavior to go around. " and "BUBONIC SCARE HAS COLLAPSED" (which one or two unfortunate subscribers read in bed while already palpating their mysteriously swollen glands), Chase isolates Chron's disease at its most pestilential. By unearthing such boosterish 1900 headlines as "THE It rendered sufferers insensible of the world around them, lowering their defenses against countless strains of prejudice and rumor. Chron's disease used to strike tens of thousands of The most virulent scourge to afflict Victorian San Francisco in Marilyn Chase's richly atmospheric new book, "The Barbary Plague," isn't bubonic plague at all but Chron's disease. The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco ![]()
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