Then he applied the same benevolent activity to prisons in other countries, in the far East, and in southern Europe, and finally laid down his life, a victim to disease contracted on one of his missions of mercy; but the hygienic reforms he began were developed more and more until this fearful blot upon modern civilization was removed.( 335) (335) For Erasmus, see the letter cited in Bascome, History of Epidemic Pestilences, London, 1851.

For the account of the condition of Queen Elizabeth's presence chamber, see the same, p.

206; see also the same for attempts at sanitation by Caius, Mead, Pringle, and others; also see Baas and various medical authorities.

For the plague in London, see Green's History of the English People, chap.

ix, sec.