Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived wh…

- Peter Lewis Allen

Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselve…

- Peter Lewis Allen

Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the libra…

- Peter Lewis Allen

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…

- Peter Lewis Allen