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Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the... →
Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived... →
The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague -... →
Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their... →
Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could... →
Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon... →
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