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Jul 15, 2021
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Plagues, Pandemics and Viruses
From the Plague of Athens to Covid-19
Heather E Quinlan
Visible Ink Press 2020
Pb, 397pp, £19.99, ISBN 9781578597048
Lockdowns. Social distancing. Fake news. For all our medical sophistication, a mediæval physician would recognise our responses to Covid-19.
During the waves of plague that swept across Europe during the Middle Ages and Enlightenment, physicians used personal protective equipment, such as plague suits. When the Black Death reached Ragusa
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