autobiography – Plague Anthology

Miss Tully: Letters from Tripoli during the plague epidemic 1785-6

In subsequent letters, Miss Tully reports on corsair attacks; cases of the same person enduring repeated bouts of the plague; the Tully family’s friend Hadgi Abderrahman’s 104-day quarantine off Malta, and the doctor who fled with him’s method of treating the plague, learned from a Moorish woman, which “gained him great popularity in Malta.”Continue reading “Miss Tully: Letters from Tripoli during the plague epidemic 1785-6”