This is poison hemlock, or Conium maculatum. Its leaves look a lot like flat-leaf parsley, don’t they? That similarity was unfortunate for one man, a Scottish tailor named Duncan Gow. In 1845 his children made him a sandwich for his… Read More
The strain of bacteria that causes epidemic typhus is called Rickettsia prowazeki, named after the scientists who identified it and its mode of transmission, Howard Taylor Ricketts (1871 – 1910) and Stanislaus Josef Mathias von Prowazek (1875 – 1915). Both men died of typhus.