Pandemic in Potosí : : Fear, Loathing, and Public Piety in a Colonial Mining Metropolis / / Kris Lane.
In 1719, a deadly and highly contagious disease took hold of the Imperial Villa of Potosí, a silver mining metropolis in what is now Bolivia. Within a year, the pathogen had killed some 22,000 people, just over a third of the city’s residents. Victims collapsed with fever, body aches, and effusions...
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