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In this pathbreaking book, historian Mary Kilbourne Matossian argues that epidemics, sporadic outbursts of bizarre behavior, and low fertility and high death rates from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries may have been caused by food poisoning from microfungi in bread, the staple food in Europe and America during this period.Matossian, Mary K. is the author of 'Poisons of the Past Molds, Epidemics, and History' with ISBN 9780300051216 and ISBN 0300051212.
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