The Plague Doctor's Round: Fear and duty in the sickness years

Margaret Endersby

Step into the narrow streets of a seventeenth-century town where a physician makes his daily rounds through households touched by illness. Margaret Endersby traces how plague moved through rooms and relationships, how a doctor weighed fear against obligation, and how communities drew lines between the sick and the well. You will learn what contemporaries actually recorded about symptoms, which treatments filled the medical kit, and how rents and parish boundaries shaped survival. Louisa Wray reads with measured attention, her voice carrying the weight of footsteps on cobblestones and the quiet of rooms where families waited. The pacing lets you absorb each chapter like a visit to a household door. Listen as the past breathes beside you.