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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Don’t let Saint Vitus inspire your wild dance moves.
Chapter 3: No one knew what caused the plague, and the supposed cures for it were often quite odd indeed.
Chapter 4: Spanish colonial conquests were greatly aided by smallpox.
Chapter 5: Compassion, not isolation, best supports leprosy sufferers.
Chapter 6: To prevent cholera, do not put your water source beside your sewage trench.
Chapter 7: Censorship is deadly, especially regarding the outbreak of Spanish flu.
Description
Get Well Soon (2017) tells the story of the diseases and epidemics that have plagued humans from the distant past right up to the twentieth century, detailing the theories that people once had about certain diseases and how to treat them. There’s room in the story too for the heroes who made breakthroughs in the treatment and prevention of diseases, or who helped sufferers when others shunned them.
Who Should Listen
- Students of history and the history of medicine
- Anyone interested in public health
- Medics in need of quirky anecdotes for dinner parties