Great illnesses and illnesses of the great. How diseases influenced the course of history

People have been getting sick and dying at all times. But if a stillborn child in an ordinary family could hardly lead to the collapse of a state, then the death of several of a king's sons in infancy could trigger a series of executions, conspiracies, and coups. In his book, German physician and historian Ronald D. Gerste examines the series of forks in history and shows how strongly illness, surgery, or diagnosis can change the course of events. Although history cannot be turned back, this book will open up another side of it to you, amazing and usually invisible under the dense layer of time. How did one English doctor become the cause of death for two great composers? How much would the course of history in the 20th century have changed if a cancerous tumor had not killed King Frederick III of Prussia? Why did a failed gallbladder surgery lead to the Suez Crisis? Why did the subjects boil the remains of Frederick Barbarossa? And most importantly, how have the diseases of great people and the great diseases of humanity affected our current life? The author of the book will tell you all about this. (And what would have happened if that stillborn child had been a healthy infant, we will never know.) Publication of the book 'Great Diseases and the Diseases of the Great' in a convenient pocket format.