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Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
by Jennifer Wright
The tone occasionally veered too far into "lol funny blog post," but that was more than balanced out by Wright's genius stroke of using each chapter to make a point about handling future epidemics, and to hammer home how inevitable they are.
As a copy editor, I feel compelled to point out two egregious errors in the book: one, the term for choleric effluvia is "rice-water stool," not just "rice stool," and two, John Keats's epitaph reads "Here lies one whose name was writ in water," which the book gives as "whose life." Copy editors, it is explicitly your job to double-check jargon and quotes!
As a copy editor, I feel compelled to point out two egregious errors in the book: one, the term for choleric effluvia is "rice-water stool," not just "rice stool," and two, John Keats's epitaph reads "Here lies one whose name was writ in water," which the book gives as "whose life." Copy editors, it is explicitly your job to double-check jargon and quotes!