Plague in San Francisco: an essay review.
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[Rieux] knew what those jubilant crowds did not know but could have learned from books: that the plague bacillus never dies or disappears for good; that it can lie dormant for years and years in furniture and linen-chests; that it bides its time in bedrooms, cellars, trunks, and bookshelves; and that perhaps the day would come when, for the bane and the enlightening of men, it would rouse up its rats again and send them forth to die in a happy city.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of the history of medicine and allied sciences
دوره 59 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2004