Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria?: Torrid Diseases in a Temperate World
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780393040845 (0393040844)
Publish date: May 1st 1997
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
In this book Desowitz goes over the evidence for the origin and history of several diseases, including malaria, worm infestations, yellow fever, and syphylis, of which there are actually four different kinds. I didn't know anything about hookworm, and had never heard of John Rockefeller's campaign a...
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