Plagues & Poxes: The Rise and Fall of Epidemic Disease

by Alfred Jay Bollet

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 093995706X
• ISBN13: 9780939957064
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Demos Medical Publishing
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Charts the rise and changing of disease patterns

The impact of human history on epidemic disease is related in Dr. Bollett's Plagues And Poxes, an excellent medical-based survey which charts the rise and changing of disease patterns throughout human history. From key events which sparked changes and people involved in them to how inflections diseases have been stopped, Plagues And Poxes provides both a case history and a social analysis, written by a medical doctor who has been a member of many prestigious medical history societies.