Jaume D’Agramunt was a Catalan medical doctor and writer, who died in

Lleida Lleida (, ; ; '' see below'') is a city in the west of Catalonia, Spain. It is the capital and largest town in Segrià county, the Ponent region and the province of Lleida. Geographically, it is located in the Catalan Central Depression. It ...

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in 1350. In the face of the incredible toll taken across Europe by the

Black Plague The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic that occurred in Europe from 1346 to 1353. It was one of the list of epidemics, most fatal pandemics in human history; as many as people perished, perhaps 50% of Europe's 14th century population. ...

, on April 23, 1348, he provided the Mayor of Lleida with his ''Regiment de preservacio de pestilència'' (''Directions for Protection from the Plague''), considered the very first medical text written in Catalan. The text provides a detailed explanation of the illness, based on the natural philosophy beliefs of the time, including a strong astrological component, and supposed ways of protecting oneself. Shortly thereafter, Agramunt himself was one of the first victims when the Plague razed Lleida.Diccionari de la Literatura Catalana, 2008

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