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Before microbes were discovered and shown to be the cause of infectious diseases, there existed a very rich and imaginative literature concerning the origin of epidemics. Introduced by Hippocrates and blessed by Galen, the role of a 'tainted' atmosphere (miasmas) was central to nearly all systems of beliefs well into the late 19th century. Many causes were imagined to explain the coming of miasmas, including rotting bodies and vegetable matter, volcanic action that freed poisonous emanations from the 'bowels of the earth' and God-driven mechanisms, including disease-carrying demons. Plague Legends illustrates how these ideas evolved as old and new disease epidemics occurred in the western world, particularly in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Today, when the threat of bioterrorism is sweeping the world, one might ask of what relevance is such a book. For myself, I think that there are two aspects of this history that are of particular interest. The first is how very recent dramatically erroneous ideas concerning disease causation dominated the medical literature. Only in the latter part of the 19th century did medicine free itself from more than two millennia of false and dogmatically held beliefs. Very quickly in the 20th century medical science advanced to the point where, at least for the western countries, most plague terrors became a thing of history, something to be read about but no longer feared.
Secondly, the epidemic threats of the past provoked a terror that in many ways was greater than that of today. There were no cures for any of the major diseases that moved from one part of the world to another, so as the newspapers reported outbreaks the most reliable response, for those who could afford to do so, was to flee as quickly as possible. Such was the case when yellow fever struck Philadelphia in 1793 and cholera New York in 1832 and 1849. Comparing one generation's fear with that of another is in itself a meaningless effort, but for some it might provide a degree of solace to know that the world has seen far worse and has managed not only to survive but to conquer many of the plague threats that once terrorized it.
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Regarding content, suffice it to say that Gordon's book stands as further proof that fact is far stranger, more intriguing, and alarming than fiction could ever hope to be.
In his Ethics, Aristotle does little more than to search for and examine the "good." Aristotle examines the virtues and vices of man in all of his faculties.
Aristotle refers to three types of lives, the common life, the political life, and the contemplative life, to which he assigns the highest order. Certainly, this is the most difficult life. Similar to Plato, Aristotle believed that "the unexamined life is a life not worth living." Aristotle does nothing other to examine the life of man and what is the best life to live.
Unlike Plato, you do not need to read the entire work to walk away with some useful insight into life. Though the over 100 chapters, divided into ten books, flow and build upon each other, you can read just one of them and be benefited. Aristotle covers many different subjects such as the good, morals, virtue, vice, courage, generosity, justice, intelligence, art, science, friendship, love, pleasure, and pain.
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