Historic Epidemics: the Dancing Plague of 1518
As my last post on the Historic Epidemic series, this one is a little less serious. And yes, the Dancing Plague of 1518 was…
As my last post on the Historic Epidemic series, this one is a little less serious. And yes, the Dancing Plague of 1518 was…
How could any good come from a pandemic that devastated the known world? Hard to believe, but in the aftermath of the Great Pestilence…
The Black Death. The Bubonic plague. The Great Pestilence. The Great Mortality. Whatever name you choose, 60% of the world's population died from it…
Are masks the answer to getting back to a 'new normal' after COVID19? During the 1918 influenza, the widespread use of masks was a…
As we shelter at home and follow the rising numbers of infections and deaths from COVID-19, I have a new understanding and appreciation for…
A short-lived illness that left 38 people dead in Italy in 1623 can hardly be called an epidemic of the likes of COVID19 or…
Bradshaw Crandall, Beautiful Lady with Parrot, circa 1929, Public Domain In my last post, I told about how my youngest daughter contracted an obscure…
COVID19 isn't the first epidemic to hit our world, and it won't be the last. Since I'm a big believer in learning from history,…
Huldah is many things: A friend, a mother, a mother-in-law, a widow and a simple soul. She lives with her son, Ephraim and his…