Disease and History

Description

Author: Cartwright, Frederick F.  (1909-2001)

Publisher: Dorset Press

Pub Date: 1991 (Reprint edition. Third printing)

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Book: Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Dust Jacket: Fair to Good.  NOT price clipped (no price indicated).  Slight scuffing to front and rear covers.  Light edge and corner wear.

Notes: Originally published in by Thomas Y. Crowell in 1972.  Obviously the Black Death figures here, but also Napoleon’s battles with typhus, how did syphilis (the great mimic) begin, hemophilia and the fall of the Romanovs, “psychiatric” disease.  An updated edition was published in 2020 and covered some aspects of Covid-19.  From the library of the late environmentalist Dave Foreman.