The horrors of the cholera epidemic in Valašské Meziříčí

It is probably hard to imagine the horrors of pandemics today. From history lessons and historical films, we probably have an idea of ​​the plagues of the Middle Ages, and the plague columns in the squares and the ossuaries under the churches still remind us a little of it today. The plague stopped bothering Europe in the 18th century. But other, not so well-known epidemics came. From this point of view, the 18th century is the century of smallpox. And the 19th century the century of cholera.…