Rats, lice, and history : being a study in biography, which, after twelve preliminary chapters indispensable for the preparation of the lay reader, deals with the life history of typhus fever
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Rats, lice, and history : being a study in biography, which, after twelve preliminary chapters indispensable for the preparation of the lay reader, deals with the life history of typhus fever
Black Dog & Leventhal : Distributed by Workman Pub., [1996], c1963
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Rats, lice, and history : a chronicle of pestilence and plagues
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Originally published: Boston, 1935
Includes bibliographical references
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The classic chronicle of the impact disease and plagues have had on history and society over the past half-millennium. Intriguingly fascinating and entertaining reading for anyone who is interested in how society copes with catastrophe and pain. Relevant today in face of the worldwide medical calamity of AIDS. Continuously in print since its first publication in 1934, with over 75 printings.
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