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THE epidemic diseases occupy much of the space in medical treatises of the Early and Middle Ages. The reason is not far to seek, for plagues and pestilences were common and the resultant decimation of populations at regular intervals was terrifying and impressive.
The Conquest of Epidemic Disease
A Chapter in the History of Ideas. By Charles-Edward Amory Winslow. Pp. xiii + 411. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1943.) 30s. net.
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MARSHALL, J. The Conquest of Epidemic Disease. Nature 153, 475 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153475a0
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