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How can one learn about the plague and Huntington's chorea, sclerosis and Parkinson's disease, Stendhal's syndrome and the mysterious beriberi? From the medical directory of diseases - you will say, and you will be wrong, because there is no better way to find a hundred symptoms of a terrible infection in yourself than inappropriate reading of boring encyclopedias. But if you want to read about diseases, but not become a hypochondriac? Aleksey Paevsky and Anna Khoruzhaya, participants in the Neuronovity project and co-authors, will come to the rescue. They know exactly how interesting and without horror stories to tell about the history of the development of medicine! "Generally PLAGUE!" - a book dedicated to the most interesting, in the opinion of the authors, stories of the discovery and treatment of mysterious diseases from the time of Avicenna to the present day.