Lot of interesting information, but the slanted perspective and obnoxious loaded language make it hard to read and make me trust the author less.This was the end of the 19th century: Medicine barely grasped germ theory. The author's admiration of anti-vaccinators no longer makes sense *over a hu...
The mysterious disease brought little of the horror people expected from smallpox. For every hundred people infected, only one or two died. Physicians and lay-people often mistook the symptoms for chicken pox, measles, or some other eruptive disease. The eruption passed through the normal stages,...