Drink less, exercise more and take in the air – sage advice on pandemic living from a long-forgotten, and very long, 18th-century poem
- Written by: Melissa Schoenberger, Associate Professor of English, College of the Holy Cross
Disease and public health confusion were common in 18th-century England.adoc-photos/Corbis via Getty ImagesA respiratory disease has spread far and wide. Conflicts at home and abroad pose dire challenges. The public is overwhelmed by questions of what to read and whom to trust as it confronts an ever more complicated world.
I am describing mid-18th...
