Roman Germ Theory

I’ve been enjoying my old professor’s The Swerve, which inter alia really drives home how little there was of ancient literature that survived to be “discovered” later. George Cochran, whose 10,000 Year Explosion with Henry Harpending is utterly fascinating and (if you give it some thought) subversive as all hell, notes an indicator of what would have been a pretty important bit of lost ancient knowledge. What with, you know, the plagues and all.