![]() ![]() ![]() Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Inc ISBN: 9781627797467 Number of pages: 336 Weight: 431 g Dimensions: 218 x 146 x 29 mm You may also be interested in. With her signature mix of in-depth research and upbeat storytelling, and not a little dark humour, Jennifer Wright explores history's most gripping and deadly outbreaks. Get Well Soon delivers the gruesome, morbid details of some of the worst plagues in human history, as well as stories of the heroic figures who fought to ease their suffering. Throughout time, humans have been terrified and fascinated by the plagues they've suffered from. And in turn-of-the-century New York, an Irish cook caused two lethal outbreaks of typhoid fever, a case that transformed her into the notorious Typhoid Mary and led to historic medical breakthroughs. ![]() In late-nineteenth-century England an eccentric gentleman founded the No Nose Club in his gracious townhome-a social club for those who had lost their noses, and other body parts, to the plague of syphilis for which there was then no cure. In a month more than 400 people had died from the mysterious dancing plague. Jennifer Wright not only reviews the major diseases of history, their biologic basis, symptoms and the treatments but also goes into the politics and villains. This is one of my favorite non-fiction books. ![]() She danced herself to her death six days later, and soon thirty-four more villagers joined her. Get Well Soon (2017) Jennifer Wright The subtitle is: History’s Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them. In 1518, in a small town in France, Frau Troffea began dancing and didn't stop. ![]()
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