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The Ghost Map, by Steven Johnson
Some of the things we know now about medicine—hygiene prevents illness, the four humours are bunk, mercury doesn't cure anything—seem so simple that medical history would be laughable if it hadn't been so deadly. It's easy to forget that it took us thousands of years to get to where we are. Steven Johnson's The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic is one chapter (a 320 page chapter) in the journey humanity has taken from curing insanity by drilling holes in people's skulls to modern medicine...
Read the rest of my review at Summer Reading Project.
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