
Get Well Soon
History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
Jennifer Wright(Author)
Henry Holt & Company Inc (Publisher)
Published on 7. February 2017
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-1-62779-746-7 (ISBN)
Description
In 1518, in a small town in France, Frau Troffea began dancing and didn't stop. She danced herself to her death six days later, and soon thirty-four more villagers joined her. Then more. In a month more than 400 people had died from the mysterious dancing plague. In late-nineteenth-century England an eccentric gentleman founded the No Nose Club in his gracious townhome--a social club for those who had lost their noses, and other body parts, to the plague of syphilis for which there was then no cure. And in turn-of-the-century New York, an Irish cook caused two lethal outbreaks of typhoid fever, a case that transformed her into the notorious Typhoid Mary and led to historic medical breakthroughs. Throughout time, humans have been terrified and fascinated by the plagues they've suffered from. Get Well Soon delivers the gruesome, morbid details of some of the worst plagues in human history, as well as stories of the heroic figures who fought to ease their suffering. With her signature mix of in-depth research and upbeat storytelling, and not a little dark humour, Jennifer Wright explores history's most gripping and deadly outbreaks.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Illustrations
20-25 black-and-white halftone images throughout
Dimensions
Height: 33 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 222 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-62779-746-7 (9781627797467)
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Person
Jennifer Wright is the author of It Ended Badly: Thirteen of The Worst Break-Ups In History. She has written for numerous publications, including McSweeney's, The New York Observer, Salon, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Popular Mechanics, Maxim, The New York Post and more. She lives in New York City with her fiance who is pretty sure she has a cold and not the bubonic plague.