Behind the Scenes Minis: Disease Pact

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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Society & Culture, History

4.2 • 24.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Tracy talks about a strange statement in a paper she read while working on the Carlos J. Finlay episode. Holly shares her amusement at the pact Hartlib and his friends made.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed Human.
0:05.4	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of IHeart Radio.
0:16.0	Hello and happy Friday. I'm Tracy V. Wilson.
0:18.8	And I'm Holly Fry.
0:20.5	This week we talked about Carlos Juan Finlay and Yellow Fever,
0:24.5	and we talked a lot about mosquitoes.
0:26.8	Yeah.
0:27.3	When I was doing the research on this,
0:30.4	a statement was made in one of the papers
0:35.0	that I just did a double take about.
0:39.0	And I don't want to throw this author under a bus.
0:44.5	So I'm just going to say what the sentence was
0:46.7	and not more detail about the paper.
0:48.7	The sentence was, historians have only recently acknowledged
0:52.9	the role of disease in history.
0:55.2	What?
0:55.8	And I was like, right, that was my response.
0:58.7	What?
0:59.8	And the context of this was a military history paper.
1:04.8	And so I was like, do you mean maybe only military historians specifically?
1:12.7	Right.
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