Summary of Laura Spinney's Pale Rider

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. #1 The first written description of influenza was made by a doctor called Hippocrates in 412 BC. He defined an epidemic as a disease that propagates in a country. Hippocrates thought that disease was the result of an imbalance between the four humours or fluids that circulate in the human body. #2 The Cough of Perinthus was probably not the first flu epidemic. The flu virus is transmitted from one person to another in tiny inf