Book: Poisons Of The Past: Molds, Epidemics, And History In this pathbreaking book, historian Mary Kilbourne Matossian argues that epidemics, sporadic outbursts of bizarre behavior, and low fertility and high death rates from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries may have been caused by food poisoning from microfungi in bread, the staple food in Europe and America during this period.
Details of Book: Poisons Of The Past: Molds, Epidemics, And History Book: Poisons Of The Past: Molds, Epidemics, And History
Author: Mary Kilbourne Matossian
ISBN: 0300051212
ISBN-13: 9780300051216
, 978-0300051216
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: Jul 1991
Publisher: Yale University Press
Number of Pages: 208
Language: English