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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;FitzNigel, post: 2492473, member: 74712&quot;]I&#039;d agree that there was no germ theory at this point, but they were aware that the plague could have been spread by contact.&nbsp; If anything, this started Europe down the road of looking more closely at disease and examining it, rather than relying on the Ancient Greek explanation of the four humors.&nbsp; There was at least one man in France (whose name escapes me) who kept meticulous notes of symptoms and attempts at cures.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, we&#039;re the Mongols the first to practice biological warfare?&nbsp; Possibly - although chucking bodies from a trebuchet wasn&#039;t necessarily new (King Stephen of England threatened to hurl a young William Marshall to his death when parleying with William&#039;s father - and that was in the early 12th century!)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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