- “The advice of doctors and the power of medicine appeared useless and unavailing.” Some people maintained that “the surest medicine for such an evil disease was to drink heavily, enjoy life’s pleasures, and go about singing and having fun, satisfying their appetites by any means available, while laughing at everything.”
- -Giovanni Boccaccio: The Decameron, written during the Bubonic Plague, between the years of 1348-53
It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the most responsive to change.”
-Charles Darwin
