EditorialIndia: Statue of Doctor Acacio Gabriel Viegas (1856 - 1933), erected in 1936, Dhobi Talao area, Mumbai (formerly Bombay). Doctor Viegas was President of the Bombay Municipal Corporation (1906-7), and credited with the early discovery of bubonic plague in
EditorialIndia: Statue of Doctor Acacio Gabriel Viegas (1856 - 1933), erected in 1936, Dhobi Talao area, Mumbai (formerly Bombay). Doctor Viegas was President of the Bombay Municipal Corporation (1906-7), and credited with the early discovery of bubonic plague in
EditorialAlexandre Yersin (1863-1943). Swiss and naturalized French physician and bacteriologist. He is remembered as the discoverer of the bacillus responsible for the bubonic plague or pest.
EditorialReverend Thomas Groner, a Catholic priest in Oberammergau, Germany, displays the Book of Death from the bubonic plague in the 17th century, on March 27, 2020. (Laetitia Vancon/The New York Times)
EditorialElaine Stritch, Alvin Epstein and John Turturro in the Samuel Beckett play “Endgame,” in which illness is blamed on the obliteration of community, at BAM’s Harvey Theater in Brooklyn, April 29, 2008. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialAlexandre Yersin (1863-1943). Swiss and naturalized French physician and bacteriologist. He is remembered as the discoverer of the bacillus responsible for the bubonic plague or pest.
EditorialAlexandre Yersin (1863-1943). Swiss and naturalized French physician and bacteriologist. He is remembered as the discoverer of the bacillus responsible for the bubonic plague or pest.