Fri. 12:06 pm – Listening To Literature 2: The Black Plague hit Marseilles again in 1721, the last major outbreak of the disease in Western Europe. How did they handle it, the city and national authorities and the medical personnel? Epidemiology was in its infancy, and the source of the disease was unknown. Leigh Rich and P. T. Bridgeport discuss two tracts from the time and their relevance to dealing with disease outbreaks today. 04/17/2020.