The Deadly Mission of Phineas Snodgrass
by Frederik Pohl
This cautionary tale about Snodgras—time traveler who brought modern-day healthcare
back to the Roman Empire—originally appeared as an essay in the
editorial pages of Pohl’s Galaxy[/em] along with a nod to L. Sprague de Camp’s Lest Darkness
Fall, but it’s since made its way into more than one story compilation.
— Michael Main
Snodgrass decided to make the Roman world healthy and to keep its people alive through
20th century medicine.
“The Deadly Mission of Phineas Snodgrass” by Frederik Pohl
, Galaxy Magazine, June 1962.