The diseases brought to this continent by the Europeans included bubonic plague, chicken pox, pneumonic plague, cholera, diphtheria, influenza, measles, scarlet fever, smallpox, typhus, tuberculosis, and whooping cough
<span>-He describes the extreme rituals that people hold in America which he introduces his topic, ritual activity, "the focus" of which is the human body, the appearance and health of which looms as a dominant concern in the ethos of the people.</span>
