Summary of Toni Mount's Dragon's Blood & Willow Bark

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Book Preview:#1 The miasma theory, which was the prevailing theory in medieval Europe, stated that diseases arose from bad smells. Medieval physicians and scholars believed that diseases were caused by foul airs, and therefore, they would often force local residents to clear away their waste.

#2 The disease Rhazes wrote about in the tenth century was similar to chicken pox. He thought that people’s basic constitutions determined whether they suffered from smallpox or measles.

#3 The first known disease that afflicted humans was the plague, which was spread by fleas. It was first diagnosed in 1414 in Paris, and was believed to be caused by dying flowers.

#4 The Black Death, also known as the Plague of Justinian, was a disease that swept through Europe in the sixth and seventh centuries AD. It was brought to England by the Romans, and it was also known as the Plague of Cadwalader’s Time in Ireland.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Feb 19, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669349846

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Contents

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Insights from Chapter 6

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Insights from Chapter 11

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The miasma theory, which was the prevailing theory in medieval Europe, stated that diseases arose from bad smells. Medieval physicians and scholars believed that diseases were caused by foul airs, and therefore, they would often force local residents to clear away their waste.

#2

The disease Rhazes wrote about in the tenth century was similar to chicken pox. He thought that people’s basic constitutions determined whether they suffered from smallpox or measles.

#3

The first known disease that afflicted humans was the plague, which was spread by fleas. It was first diagnosed in 1414 in Paris, and was believed to be caused by dying flowers.

#4

The Black Death, also known as the Plague of Justinian, was a disease that swept through Europe in the sixth and seventh centuries AD. It was brought to England by the Romans, and it was also known as the Plague of Cadwalader’s Time in Ireland.

#5

The Black Death, also known as the Black Plague, was caused by the bites of infected rat fleas. It was not contagious from person to person, except in its pneumonic form, which affected the lungs and could be passed on in airborne droplets.

#6

The Black Death was the result of a particularly virulent strain of the bacterium Yersinia pestis, which was transmitted from rat to human. It was not as contagious as modern strains, so scientists have focused on the vectors of the disease: the means by which it is transferred from one victim to the next.

#7

The Black Death arrived in Sicily in October 1347, carried by the Genoese galleys that had spent months at sea from the Crimea. The Italian chronicler Michael of Piazza stated that the plague