Hardly any group of diseases caused so many fantasies and so much fear, pain, and
death throughout history as did epidemics of infectious diseases, leaving profound
marks in human memory. A variety and diversity of testimonies about countless epidemics
of the past were recorded: holy scriptures, chronicles, travelers’ reports, literary
and art works, etc. Although narratives are a valuable source of historical data and
(retrospective) epidemiology, art is a much more expressive vehicle for demonstrating disease, malformation, and death.
Albeit rare, illustrations to medical texts paralleled the written word on a small
scale, and they are almost as old as texts themselves. Furthermore, illustrations
could also be understood over the centuries by the illiterate.
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