Consequences
The plague stimulated local research in disease prevention, which was boosted by discovering indigenous plague in newly-conquered territories of the Caucasus. The epidemic was professionally exposed to Western European academia through An account of plague which raged in Moscow 1771, published in 1798 in Latin by Belgian physician Charles de Mertens; an English translation was released in 1799.
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