{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"53 - The Antonine Plague (guest episode with Liam Conway-Pearson)","description":"Plagues have fascinated us since antiquity, but the Antonine Plague stands out because one of the most famous physicians in Western history was present to make detailed observations. In this episode, guest host Liam Conway-Pearson explores what we know -- and what we don't know -- about this plague, which ravaged Rome two millennia ago. Plus a brand new #AdamAnswers about using convalescent plasma to treat the Spanish Flu of 1918!   Sources: Adrian Muraru, \u201cOn Galen of Pergamum: The Greek Physician and Philosopher of Late Antiquity in the Roman Empire,\u201d Agathos 9, no.2 (2018): 7-20. H. Clifford Lane and Anthony S. Fauci, \u201cMicrobial Bioterrorism,\u201d in Harrison\u2019s Principles of Internal Medicine, 20e, ed. J. Larry Jameson et al. (New York: McGraw Hill, 2018), S2. James Greenberg, \u201cPlagued by Doubt: Reconsidering the Impact of a Mortality Crisis in the 2nd C. A.D.,\u201d Journal of Roman Archaeology 16 (2003): 413-425.  Jennifer Manley, \u201cMeasles and Ancient Plagues: A Note on New Scientific Evidence,\u201d Classical World 107, no. 3 (Spring 2014): 393-397.  J. F. Gilliam, \u201cThe Plague under Marcus Aurelius,\u201d The American Journal of Philology 82, no. 3 (July 1961): 225-251. John Haldon, Hugh Elton, Sabine R. Huebner, Adam Izdebski, Lee Mordechai, and Timothy P. Newfield, \u201cPlagues, Climate Change, and the End of an Empire. A Response to Kyle Harper\u2019s The Fate of Rome (2): Plagues and a Crisis of Empire,\u201d History Compass 6, no. 12 (November 2018). Joseph B. Fullerton and Mark E. Silverman, \u201cClaudius Galen of Pergamum: Authority of Medieval Medicine,\u201d Clinical Cardiology 32, no. 11 (January 2008): E82-E84. Joseph R. McConnell, Andrew I. Wilson, Andreas Stohl, Monica M. Arienzo, Nathan J. Chellman, Sabine Eckhardt, Elisabeth M. Thompson, A. Mark Pollard, and J\u00f8rgen Pender Steffensen, \u201cLead Pollution Recorded in Greenland Ice Indicates European Emissions Tracked Plagues, Wars, and Imperial Expansion during Antiquity,\u201d PNAS 115, no. 22 (May 2018): 5726-5731. J. Rufus Fears, \u201cThe Plague under Marcus Aurelius and the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,\u201d Infectious Disease Clinics of North America 18 (2004): 65-77. Kyle Harper, The Fate of Rome (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017), 23-118. Mike Duncan, The History of Rome, Podcast Audio, 2007-2013. https:\/\/thehistoryofrome.typepad.com\/the_history_of_rome\/archives.html  R. J. Littman and M. L. Littman, \u201cGalen and the Antonine Plague,\u201d The American Journal of Philology 94, no. 3 (Autumn 1973): 243-255. R. P. Duncan-Jones, \u201cThe Impact of the Antonine Plague,\u201d Journal of Roman Archaeology 9 (1996): 108-136. \u201cSmallpox,\u201d CDC, last modified June 7, 2016, https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/smallpox\/transmission\/index.html. Vivian Nutton, \u201cThe Chronology of Galen\u2019s Early Career,\u201d The Classical Quarterly 23, no. 1 (May 1973): 158-171. Yuki Furuse, Akira Suzuki, and Hitoshi Oshitani, \u201cOrigin of Measles Virus: Divergence from Rinderpest Virus between the 11th and 12th Centuries,\u201d Virology Journal 7, no. 52 (March 2010): 1-4.  Catherine Th\u0117ves, Eric Crub\u0117zy, and Philippe Biagini, \u201cHistory of Smallpox and Its Spread in Human Populations,\u201d Microbiology Spectrum 4, no. 4 (April 2015):  Walter Scheidel, \u201cA Model of Demographic and Economic Change in Roman Egypt after the Antonine Plague,\u201d Journal of Roman Archaeology 15 (2002): 97-114. ","author_name":"Bedside Rounds","author_url":"http:\/\/www.bedside-rounds.org","html":"