
Epidemics and Pandemics: Their Impacts on Human History – J. N. Hays
Libros de Medicina – Rincón Médico Epidemics and Pandemics: Their Impacts on Human History This book intends to provide accurate, up-to-date historical information about fifty significant epidemics and pandemics. It is important for readers to understand that the book is a work of historical, not medical, reference—I am a historian, not a physician. It is arranged chronologically, so that the first chapter concerns an epidemic of the fifth century B.C.E. and the last chapters discuss several contemporary pandemics. Each chapter presents its information in a consistent format that allows the reader to gain information about the time, place, and scale



