Download or read book What Disease was Plague? written by Ole Jørgen Benedictow and published by Brill Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this monograph, the alternative theories to the established bubonic-plague theory as to the microbiological identity of historical plague epidemics are intensively discussed in the light of the historical sources and the medical primary research and standard works.