HIST 249 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Capon, Rare Disease
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The disease has been since nor just once on earth but often. Thinks that diseases are the same but they appear in different forms. Not a new disease, but a rare disease (lines 85) Rejects the idea that it came from the new world. Conditions for the disease have only arrived into the old world. Times that they are living in are driven by astrological cycles. When the conditions aren"t right, the diseases will go dormant. When they go dormant for long enough then we don"t remember them. Fracastoro compares the arrival of the pox with the arrival of the plague in 1347. Both grew differently, reaction to diseases was different. Seeds - the different between the plague is the it is fast spreading, as soon as you get it you have 3-5 days until you die. Seeds help to explain ideas of the difference between the. Seeds help to explain ideas of the difference between the plague and pox.
