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Doctoring the Black Death
Doctoring the Black Death: Medieval Europe's Medical Response to Plague | John Aberth
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This engrossing book provides a comprehensive history of the medical response to the Black Death. John Aberth has translated plague treatises that illustrate the human dimensions of the horrific scourge, including doctors’ personal anecdotes as they desperately struggled to understand a deadly new disease.
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The Author has the knowledge available to share. It was interesting to learn the differences between the recommendations given by Christian vs Muslim Doctors. However, there was a dire tendency to list and catalogue every bit of that knowledge until it sucked any interesting bits out.