Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Plague of Galen

  • Bugs and people: When epidemics change history

    Salvatore Mangione Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States    The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Albrecht Dürer, woodcut, c.1496–8 From left to right, Death (with a trident), Famine (with scales), War (with a sword) and Plague (with the arrows of pestilence) are crushing under their horses’ hooves all those unfortunate enough to stand in their wake. In…