Doctors, despite their best intentions and efforts, remained helpless to stem the flow of death during these times.  Many doctors, in fact, died after being exposed to their patients’ illnesses.  It must have been a very futile feeling for the doctors, to have their patients die despite all medical science could do at the time.  It is no wonder then, that some doctors joined with other citizens of a stricken community, and fled the beleaguered towns for the countryside and supposed security until the epidemic had passed, thus abandoning their patients.

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