<P> The 12th - century French physician Gilles de Corbeil 's On the Signs and Symptoms of Diseases ( Latin : De signis et sinthomatibus egritudinum ) uses the phrase `` black death '' ( atra mors ) to refer to a pestilential fever ( febris pestilentialis ) . </P>
where did the name black death come from
12th - century French physician Gilles de Corbeil 's On the Signs and Symptoms of Diseases