Plagues of Our Past
A conversation with Dr. Timothy Teeter
How far has medicine come? As historians know, lessons from the past can illuminate paths and pathologies of today. Dr. Timothy Teeter, associate professor of history at Georgia Southern University, joins Leigh to explore disease in the ancient world and what it might teach us during COVID-19. What was medical science like in antiquity? What really happened during the plague at Athens? When did bubonic plague and smallpox first emerge? Epidemic outbreaks pepper our past and promise to be with us into the future.
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(Plague in an Ancient City, Michiel Sweerts, c. 1652–1654)
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