Daniel Defoe and the London plague: a pioneering account of epidemiology

Daniel Defoe, author of *Robinson Crusoe*, described the 1665 London plague in a well-documented fictional account.

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His work, reissued in 1982, provides a realistic dive into the mechanisms of the epidemic.

Historians consider it a pioneering approach to epidemiology.

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