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• Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their…
• Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that…
• Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to…
• Shortly after Christopher Columbus and his sailors returned from their voyage to the New World, a horrifying new disease began to make…
• The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to…
• Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not…
• Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of…

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