Charles Creighton used to be a British physician and medical writer. He used to be highly regarded for his scholarly writings on medical history but used to be widely denounced for disputing the germ theory of infectious diseases.
The period covered by this long list is itself a long one; and the intervals between successive famine-pestilences are every now and then more than a generation. A history of epidemics is necessarily a morbid history. On this chapter of it, we search out the lean years, saying nothing of the fat years; and by exclusively dwelling upon the dark side we may form an entirely flawed opinion of the comforts or hardships, prosperity or adversity, of these remote times. English writers of the earliest period, when they use generalities, are loud in praise of the benefits of their very own island; until we come to the fourteenth century poem of ‘The Vision of Piers the Ploughman’ we will have to hardly suspect, from their usual strain, that England used to be instead of an earthly paradise, and each village an Auburn, “where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain.
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