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- and not a hundred, or two hundred, or more hundred years ago. That's because medicine has come a long, long way. Some diseases have pretty much disappeared from the planet. The stories of their eradication remain powerful and interesting, though, because so much cultural history is involved. We've got a nice little collection of books that do a great job of spinning these tales. Just a few I grabbed off the shelf:
In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made, by Norman F. Cantor (614.5732 C168i)
The Fever Trail: In Search of the Cure for Malaria, by Mark Honigsbaum (616.9362009 H757f2002)
Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox, by Jonathan B. Tucker (616.912009 T795s)
Check out the cover illustrations on some of these titles. Here's the one from Scourge:
And then there's this lovely depiction of the plague:
In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made, by Norman F. Cantor (614.5732 C168i)
The Fever Trail: In Search of the Cure for Malaria, by Mark Honigsbaum (616.9362009 H757f2002)
Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox, by Jonathan B. Tucker (616.912009 T795s)
Check out the cover illustrations on some of these titles. Here's the one from Scourge:
And then there's this lovely depiction of the plague:
2 Comments:
Do you know the name of image from the book about the black plague?
Thanks for a lot.
This image comes from The Triumph of Death, a 15th century Fresco, located at the Galleria Nazionale, Palermo, Italy. It's licensed by Art Resource at http://www.artres.com.
Thanks for the comment!
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