A history of disease in ancient times : more lethal than war / Philip Norrie.

This book shows how bubonic plague and smallpox helped end the Hittite Empire, the Bronze Age in the Near East and later the Carthaginian Empire. The book will examine all the possible infectious diseases present in ancient times and show that life was a daily struggle for survival either avoiding o...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author:	Norrie, Philip, 1953- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Switzerland] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Subjects:	Epidemiology > History. Epidemiology. History.