Posts Tagged "disease"
From the Raucous Royals blog:
“As a waypoint on the ancient Silk Road, the metropolis of Palmyra had it all… Water from local wells even contained fluoride, limiting that scourge of the ancients — tooth decay.” But that wasn’t a good thing:
An ancient city’s tale of too much fluoride
“Europe’s ‘Little Ice Age’ may have been triggered by the 14th Century Black Death plague, according to a new study.”
There’s an old theory that Abraham Lincoln might have suffered from Marfan syndrome, but maybe he had ataxia instead.