Jun 21, 2025
The verdict of the great nineteenth-century medical historian August Hirsch is judicious: "There are still a good many indications, more or less ambiguous, of the general diffusion of the disease in former times as well; and those, taken along with the experience of the present, justify the conclusion that typhoid takes a leading place among those acute infections which bear the pronounced character of ubiquitous diseases."
"Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History" - Kyle Harper
