The Day of St. Anthony's Fire: The Suspenseful, True Account of a Medieval Plague in Modern Times, and of the Scientific Detective Work that Traced it to a Suprising Cause
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780090954605 (0090954602)
Publish date: January 1st 1968
Publisher: Macmillan
Pages no: 310
Edition language: English
Heartbreaking and Truly Terrifying. I was sitting around the supper table with my family discussing theories about the Salem Witch Trials. The ergot theory was put forward, and I dismissed it, largely because of the scale: hundreds of people accused, tortured, and tried over more than a year, but...
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