The MIT Press · New release
Nary a Horse Left Standing
How a Nineteenth-Century Epidemic Transformed Medicine, Animal Welfare, and the Modern City
The MIT Press · American History
Released September 15, 2026 · ISBN 9780262054546
About the book
How a devastating outbreak of horse flu in the 1870s ground city life to a halt - but ultimately revolutionized animal rights, medicine, and transportation.
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