Where can you find out about the plague and Huntington's chorea, sclerosis and Parkinson's disease, Stendhal syndrome and the mysterious “beriberi”? From a medical reference book of diseases - you will say, and you will be wrong, because there is no better way to find a hundred symptoms of a terrible infection in yourself than inappropriate reading of boring encyclopedias. But if you want to read about diseases, but don’t become a hypochondriac? Alexey Paevsky and Anna Khoruzhaya, participants in the Neuronews project and co-authors, will come to the rescue. They know exactly how to tell about the history of the development of medicine in an interesting way and without horror stories! “In general, it’s a PLAGUE!” - a book dedicated to the most interesting, in the authors’ opinion, stories of the discovery and treatment of mysterious diseases from the time of Avicenna to the present day.