Ahoy there mateys! This book is about plagues and is fascinating. The First Mate listened to this one and recommended it. We ended up listening to it together. We would stop after each chapter and discuss. It was fun. I knew nothing about the Antonine Plague of Rome. I found how widespread syphilis was to be fascinating. The monk that worked on the leper colony, Father Damien, should be a saint. The man who promoted lobotomies, Walter Jackson Freeman II, was a devil and I want to believe that he is paying for it in death. People should vaccinate their children. And seriously bursting frogs to cure the black death. Ugh! There is a lot of humor in this book which I didn’t always love but it wasn’t done disrespectfully. I wouldn’t mind reading more of this author’s works. Arrr!

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