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Pages: 320
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The Black Death, the Great Plague, leprosy, smallpox: the very names now have a historical - almost a mythological - ring. With our space-age hospitals and wond
Language: en
Pages: 312
Pages: 312
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991-05-07 - Publisher: Vintage
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Language: en
Pages: 276
Pages: 276
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-05-22 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster
A noted medical historian places recent outbreaks of deadly diseases in historical perspective, with accounts of other alarming and recurring diseases throughou