Charles Creighton

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Charles Creighton

Scottish historian

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The Scottish medical historian Charles Creighton, writing in the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1885), pointed out that “yellow fever, in time and place, has dogged the steps of the African slave trade.” Dismissing as “altogether wide of the mark” recent suggestions that the disease might be passed…
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The Scottish medical historian Charles Creighton, writing in the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1885), pointed out that “yellow fever, in time and place, has dogged the steps of the African slave trade.” Dismissing as “altogether wide of the mark” recent suggestions that the disease might be passed…
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