Epidemics in Western Society - Yale
This is fascinating. I'm waiting for Lecture 9 (about Cholera) to load into my iPhone. Now I know (sort of) what Smallpox looks like on the skin. Faintly on my upper left arm is the scar of a long-ago smallpox innoculation - I'm so glad to have had it and avoided the smallpox. I now know the horror that this innoculation protected me from. Bubonic plague - I'd forgotten that the USA gets about ten cases of that a year, and now I know what bubonic plague does to the body. Nineteenth Century medicine: how lucky we are to live in the 21st Century, who would ever want to go back a century or more...
Aussie Constant Learner via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 03/16/12
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