Florence Beat the Plague by Changing What People Ate
Early Modern Europe

Florence Beat the Plague by Changing What People Ate

A Florentine doctor convinced the entire city to change how it ate in 1630, and without meaning to, may have ended one of Europe's last great plague outbreaks.

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Early Modern EuropeItalyPublic HealthPlague17th CenturyFlorenceMedical HistoryForgotten Figures

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