La Médecine traditionnelle de l'Inde: doctrines prévédique, védique, âyurvédique, yogique et tantrique. Les empereurs moghols, leurs maladies et leurs médecins

tactics, including the use of attack dogs. While pre-Columbian America was by no means a disease-free Shangri-La, the airborne and highly infectious European and African imports caused havoc among populations living in splendid immunological isolation. In contrast to some earlier works, Noble's book succeeds because of its scope and balance, and the author's effort to present the onslaught of disease as a gradual process in which mass infection is portrayed within a loop of panic, social disintegration, lack of caregivers and farm hands, famine, depopulation, political chaos, and religious scepticism, all of which created further susceptibilities to disease.