Many people died here during the plague; whole loads of corpses were taken to the cemetery. These were laid in large pits; no more coffins were made.
N. Senn, diary.

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459. Die Pest.

Hier starben zur Pestzeit sehr viele Leute; man führte ganze Ladungen Leichen auf den Friedhof. Diese legte man in grosse Gruben; man machte keine Särge mehr.
N. Senn, Tagebuch.

Copper engraving of Doctor Schnabel (i.e., Dr. Beak), a plague doctor in seventeenth-century Rome, circa 1656