Peter Lewis Allen

Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to…

— Peter Lewis Allen

Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of…

— Peter Lewis Allen

Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their…

— Peter Lewis Allen

The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to…

— Peter Lewis Allen

Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that…

— Peter Lewis Allen

Shortly after Christopher Columbus and his sailors returned from their voyage to the New World, a horrifying new disease began to make…

— Peter Lewis Allen