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Plague-Busters!
- Medicine's Battles with History's Deadliest Diseases
- Narrated by: Hunter Johns
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Smallpox! Rabies! Black Death! Throughout history humankind has been plagued by...well, by plagues. The symptoms of these diseases were gruesome—but the remedies were even worse.
Get to know the ickiest illnesses that have infected humans and affected civilizations through the ages. Each chapter explores the story of a disease, including the scary symptoms, kooky cures, and brilliant breakthroughs that it spawned. Medical historian and bestselling author Lindsey Fitzharris lays out the facts with her trademark wit. Diseases covered in this audiobook include bubonic plague, smallpox, rabies, tuberculosis, cholera, and scurvy.
Thanks to centuries of sickness and a host of history’s most determined plague-busters, this riveting book features everything you've ever wanted to know about the world's deadliest diseases.
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- 07-12-2023
An interesting and fun listen
This book was interesting and funny, if you like epidemiology and the past medical treatments this would definitely be a good one to have a look at 
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