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 ...

Reprint of a 1935 text, chronicling the impact of epidemics on society, tracking the origins and growth of typhus, and discussing the nature of infectious diseases, their effect on the ancient world, and their influence on political and military history.

Distributed by Workman Pub. Co.
1996
9781884822476
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400426