Blaine's Faint, Washington's Flu, Defoe's London and SARS: Stories of Health and Sickness and Politics

From James Blaine's fainting spell days before Republicans chose a candidate, to Washington's extreme flu scare, to the SARS epidemic and a look at the Ever-So-Prescient Defoe's Journal of a Plague Year, Health and Sickness and Politics.

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