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Malaria in Greek History
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Malaria in Greek History

William Henry Samuel Jones, Edward Theodore Withington

1909

3h 56m
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Did a mosquito end the Greek miracle? W. H. S. Jones makes a startling case: that malaria arrived in Greece and hollowed it out, sapping the energy of the classical world from the inside, showing up in Hippocrates, in the poets, and in a slow decline nobody could otherwise explain. You will discover an argument that reads the ancient record as a medical document. History with a fever. Press play and take the temperature.

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10 chapters

  1. 1Preface. Disease-parasites competitors with man in the struggle for existence. The importance of this for historians.9m
  2. 2Introduction. The nature and cause of malaria. Chief investigators since 1717.13m
  3. 3Chapter I. Malaria in modern Greece, and its effects upon the inhabitants.17m
  4. 4Chapter II. Malaria in the ancient non-medical writers.55m
  5. 5Chapter III. Malaria in the ancient medical writers.19m
  6. 6Chapter IV. The extent to which malaria was prevalent.9m
  7. 7Chapter V. The effects of malaria upon the ancient Greeks.1h 3m
  8. 8Appendix. I. Home-life and the position of women possibly affected by the increase of malaria. II. Chief Greek diseases other than malaria.11m
  9. 9Conclusion.5m
  10. 10Additional Chapter. A difficulty in the history of Greek therapeutics explained by the "malaria theory"35m
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