Peter Lewis Allen quotes
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“Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.”
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“Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves.”
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“Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.”
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“Shortly after Christopher Columbus and his sailors returned from their voyage to the New World, a horrifying new disease began to make its way around the Old. The "pox," as it was often called, erupted with dramatic severity.”
-- Peter Lewis AllenSource : "The wages of sin". Book by Peter Lewis Allen, press.uchicago.edu. 2000.
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“I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.”
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“There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.”
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“What hard evidence is there that Obama doesn't want ebola in America?”
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Source : Alan Furst (2010). “Spies of the Balkans: A Novel”, p.4, Random House
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2012). “Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection”, p.27, Simon and Schuster
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Source : Alexander Monro (1994). “Observations on the Structure and Functions of the Nervous System”
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