“Bubonic plague ravaged Italy in the summer of 1630. Household healers scurried to make preventive remedies that would ward off this dread disease…”

So begins today’s story from Dr. Sharon T. Strocchia.

For further reading:
Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy by Sharon T. Strocchia (Harvard University Press, 2019)

Episode transcript:
https://skymichaeljohnston.com/90secnarratives/