A fifteenth-century interest in Scandinavian plague rats July 15, 2010
Posted by Beachcombing in : Medieval
The Bubonic plague was around a long time before, in 1897, scientists finally discovered what caused the illness: disease-carrying fleas on the backs of rats. Then having taken over five hundred years to work out the plague in scientific terms: these same genius scientists – after a visit to his doctor, Beachcombing is in an [...]
