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"In the course of events, Artabanes transferred his allegiance to Rome, and was sent to Libya in 543, a territory suffering borh from a widespread insurgency and the arrival of the plague: "The whole earth was ravaged by an epidemic and a [swelling] of the groins, so that the better part of the people perished."'5 One victim of the insurgency was a senator named Areobindus, whose widow's charms proved irresistible to Artabanes. His courtship included avenging her husband's murder, but, in order to marry, the Armenian needed more than the widow's gratitude." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "Not only did the Ostrogoth invest in dozens of warships but he did so at a moment when the empire was experiencing tremendous losses in merchant shipping because of rhe plague. Before Narses could bring the Goths to conclusion, he needed to be able to transport an atmy to the Italian peninsula, and to supply it once there. That meant control of the Adriatic, which could now only be secured by decisive battle. The immediate objective of the naval battle of Sena Gallica was the telief of the Roman garrison in Ancona, which was simultaneously besieged by Totila's army, and blockaded by his navy." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "After plague, famine, and sixteen years of war, Iraly now experienced yet another disaster: the return of the Franks. In the spring of 553, two brothers named Leutharis and Buccelin, seeking to take advantage of the chaos, led a force estimated at 75,000 across the Alps and into Italy. Both were leaders of the Allemanni, a tributary nation of the Merovingian Franks. (A porrion of the confusion that seems unavoidable in reading scholarship supporting the existence of a historical German nation is this group, the linguistic progenirors of the German-in-French Allemagne." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "In a last-ditch attempt to persuade Constantinople of his need, Belisarius decided to send Antonina east, to plead not with Justinian but with Theodora. More than 150 years ago, the English historian C. E. Mallett could write of Theodora, "There are few stranger episodes in literary history than the fate of this celebtated empress,"? but the empress's remarkable life has always threatened to overshadow her historical importance. She was venerated for a thousand years, and only with the discovery of the Anekdota by a Vatican priest in 1683 was that image smudged by scandal." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"See updated study of Jennifer Warner, "Medical Errors Still plague USA hospitals," http://women.webmd.com/news/20040727/medical-errors-plague-us-hospitals 237 In Germany alone, 52 thousand "medications" are on the market despite that WHO states that only 306 are really necessary. Author May Lorrie Davis wrote a book entitled How to Survive a Stay in the Hospital without Getting Killed. The title says it all. But drugs in hospitals also can cause ADR (Adverse Drug Reaction). One should never forget that especially elderly people end up in hospitals." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Dysentery, plague, tuberculosis, malaria, and diarrhea killed many young Sardinians. As English traveler William Henry Smyth wrote in his 1828 Sketch of the Present State of the Island of Sardinia, "it is surprising that with such inconvenient residences, and uncleanly habits, the natives should remain so generally healthy as they do." IS IT IN THE GENES? When D.H. Lawrence traveled across Sardinia in 1921 in search of a lifestyle of simplicity, he found a Barbagia suited to his imagination. " - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"We have become a society that no longer has to worry so much about things like plague, famine, and poor sanitation. We now suffer from the products and iy-products of our own technological advancements that provoke poor health and chronic illness. In addition to ubiquitous chemical toxins, we have too much food, especially from unnatural, processed sources; we are oversanitized; and we owe our major health threats such as cancer, diabetes, and heart disease largely to lifestyle choices." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"We treat Alzheimer's disease as if it was as real as the plague, and yet, even the top experts in the field can't precisely diagnose it. The disease is a moving target, a chimera. As one of the textbooks in the field, Psychiatry in the Elderly, puts it: "The pathology of [AD] defies precise definition at present. This is because its individual components all occur to some extent in normal aging."14 This means that any diagnosis given during your or a loved one's life can only be probable—the best judgment of neurologists like me." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"Cholera, small pox and the plague are examples of how microbes have put humans at their mercy. However, these small creatures can also be as much of a blessing as a problem. History is full of claims that living microbes in food, particularly lactic acid bacteria, can improve health. Remember that many probiotics are lactic acid bacteria. People have eaten fermented milk products which contain lactic acid bacteria since prebiblical times. In the Bible and the sacred books of Hinduism there are mentions of cultured dairy products being eaten." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"Understand the liver meridian, and you will understand how to treat many of the problems that plague women. The Liver Meridian /"^\ The liver meridian courses up the leg to the groin; then, after circling around the rectum and pelvis, it travels inwardly upward to wrap around the liver and gallbladder. It then proceeds up the chest, across the breasts and nipples, into the thyroid glands and eyes. Most women's health problems follow this same path." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"The Intelligence of the Beasts In the entire animal kingdom, nonaccountability to self is a plague only among humans. Hawks don't ponder their aviation choices. They naturally soar on updrafts to preserve energy. If beavers could decide to party instead of building dams, they couldn't raise their young and be protected from predators. And lions don't make self-destructive decisions to lose sleep in favor of a late movie, and then sleep late when they should hunt. If you think about it, the natural order of things dictates that an unaccountable penguin will soon be a dead penguin." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"Cancer'—particularly breast cancel • Diabetes2 • Allergies and colds • Colitis • Colic and earaches in young children And finally, milk has played a major role in the development of the "super bacteria" that have recently emerged to plague our health. How? In 1990, the USDA allowed the dairy industry to increase the one part per hundred million antibiotic residue standard for milk by 10,000% to one part per million." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"Panic disorder rarely surfaces for the first time in older patients like Ron whereas paniclike symptoms plague alcoholics as they go through varying degrees of withdrawal on a daily basis. The Xanax label and multiple publications warn about cross-addiction between Xanax and alcohol. The FDA-approved label makes a direct comparison between the effects of Xanax and alcohol." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Wolff's theory can explain away most of the paradoxes that now plague quantum mechanics, and it can be derived from core principles and equations already accepted as part of the Standard Model of quantum physics. Standard Model: The most widely accepted interpretation of high-energy particle physics. It integrates classical theory, relativity and special relativity theory, and others with quantum mechanics to describe and explain nature and natural laws. It does not yet integrate gravity into its model and has a number of other flaws that have caused theorists to propose alternative theories." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"In the fourteenth century, France's Eustache Deschamps blamed fruits for causing the plague and cautioned readers to avoid "fruits both old and fresh if you want to live a long life." Unsurprisingly, colonialists stigmatized local crops wherever they settled, relegating once vital plants to oblivion. They also wiped out local populations, losing accumulated knowledge about indigenous flora." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "A medfly plague would be even worse: if Mediterranean fruit flies were to take hold in California and continental America, it is estimated that they would cause 1.5 billion dollars in damages annually. No wonder border guards are so stringent about screening fruits. Periodic infestations of medflies cripple harvests, forcing growers to shut down production as inspectors seek to eliminate the insects. Medflies, which lay their eggs under the rind of ripening fruit, cause spoilage, deformities, lowered crop yields and premature fruit drops. They also make fruits subject to export sanctions." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"The general consensus of opinion among researchers in this area is that this singularity in time lies in the first half of the twenty-first century—assuming, that is, that we do not in the meantime turn the planet into a nuclear wasteland, accidentally create a plague that destroys us all, or decimate the ozone layer to such an extent that the land becomes uninhabitable. Some, such as Vernor Vinge, a mathematician at San Diego State University, see the singularity to be a consequence of technological acceleration, with ultra-intelligent computers creating an exponential runaway effect." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.) "Moreover, should a new plague appear, we would find that our overenthusiasm for antibiotics has left our bodies weakened and our medical armory poorer. With the passing of time, our vulnerability rises rather than falls. Several bacteria that were once treatable with drugs are developing resistance to every one of our antibiotics. At present, we are managing to contain such bugs in hospitals, but they could break out at any time. Finally, we should not overlook the ecological effects of war. Military operations consume much of the world's oil production and many of the earth's resources." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"Smart criminals, forced to bury dead bodies, avoided the plague by making a concoction of garlic and vinegar or wine, which was quite effective against the plague-causing organisms. Garlic's antibacterial properties were used in World War I; wound dressings were often soaked in garlic oil, preventing infection and stopping it as well. In 1944, Joseph Cavillito published a paper, which was followed by others through the early 1950s, verifying that garlic is about as good as penicillin against some microbes, and even against the common forms of yeast." - James Scala Ph.D., 20 Natural Ways to Reduce the Risk of Prostate Cancer : A Mind-Body Approach to Health and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"They were apothecaries and had rubbed essential oils on their skin daily which protected them from this plague. The city of Bucklersbury, England was spared from the plague. This city was the center for the European lavender trade. The oil of lavender has immune stimulating and antimicrobial properties that rival and even surpass modem antiseptic chemicals and antibiotics. What Are Essential Oils? Essential oils are the subtle, volatile liquids, or resins from plants, shrubs, flowers, trees, roots, bushes, and seeds." - James A. Howenstine, A Physician's Guide to Natural Health Products That Work (Get the book.)

"In 1897 one government physician called half of India "a great charnel-house, in which countless thousands have already perished of cholera, plague, dysentery, and starvation. . . . Twenty thousand cases of cholera weekly, with a seventy-five per cent mortality, representing 15,000 deaths every seven days."11 The situation was even worse in 1899. The "great famine" of 1899 was documented as no Indian famine before it, thanks to photography and a sustained controversy over government and missionary relief efforts." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Between 1895 and 1905, India's total population declined for ten years as a result of economic depression, repeated famines, and plague. Missionaries called the 1899 famine "the great visitation." They preached that humanity's lot was misery and suffering. The lesson, they said, was that "natural law in its normal movement" was irrevocable and implacable; humans were helpless in the face of such emergencies as a monsoon failure. Dogma aside, many government officials, like my grandfather, worried about the constant specter of famine." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Birth rates declined (just as they did during nineteenth-century Indian famines), the dead were thrown into the Nile, and plague swept through the kingdom. Upper Egypt became "an empty/dry waste" as sand dunes blew onto the floodplain from the encroaching desert. "Nay, but men feed on herbs and drink water; neither fruit nor herbage can be found any longer." People attacked and looted the state granaries: "The storehouse is empty and its keeper lies stretched on the ground ... the grain of Egypt is common property." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "In Norway, where the cold weather and plague had reduced the population by two-thirds over the preceding century, upland farms lay deserted. By the 1430s many district tax yields had fallen to one-quarter of their level in 1300. Many poor families ate rye bread, which, a French doctor wrote in 1702, "is not as nourishing as wheat and loosens the bowels a little."4 However, the bread crops never created abundance. Farmers ate beans and peas and made flour from buckwheat or chestnuts. Cattle were as important as cereal crops, for they provided meat and milk as well as manure." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"In reality, drug-induced personality and memory problems, however slight in their appearance, can plague a person for a lifetime without being adequately identified or measured. SPELLBOUND BY ANTIPSYCHOTIC STABILIZING DRUGS AS I DOCUMENT in great scientific detail in Brain-Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry (2008), all antipsychotic drugs clog the brain and mind by performing a chemical disruption of frontal lobe function, the equivalent of a pharmacological lobotomy." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Many patients have told me that the drugs dampen the sounds of the voices that plague them, reducing the screams and rants to faint echoes and occasionally drowning them out entirely. Psychiatrists compare the way in which psychiatric drugs help, when they are effective, to how insulin works for people with diabetes: although far from a cure, they do help the majority of patients manage, and allow them, for the most part, to function, or function better. Or, as Scientific American more clinically put it: "Antipsychotics stop all symptoms in only about 20% of patients." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"In Europe, it is sometimes referred to as "plague plant," despite a lack of any evidence that it was effective against the plague. There is evidence that butterbur can be useful in preventing migraine headaches, but only a few randomized, double-blind studies have been reported.339'340 One study without placebo control found that butterbur root extract can reduce migraine frequency in children and adolescents.341 Questions have been raised about the long-term safety of some butterbur products because the plant contains pyrrolizidine alkaloids, which are toxic to the liver." - Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.)

"The level of sanguinarine in both plague and saliva varied from person to person, and day to day, but in general sanguinarine levels were greater in plague than in saliva (Southard et al, 1984). In a double-blind, randomized, multicenter, crossover study involving 60 subjects who used a sanguinaria-containing toothpaste followed by a sanguinaria-containing rinse, 80% had measurable improvement in plaque. This compares to a 17% improvement, using the same procedures, with commercial toothpaste and tap water rinse (Greenfield & Cuchel, 1984)." - Thomson Healthcare, Inc., PDR for Herbal Medicines, Fourth Edition (Get the book.)

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