Facets

1852 CE

#5489

Annals of influenza or epidemic catarrhal fever in Great Britain from 1510-1837.

1725 CE

#1690

Annuities upon lives; or, the valuation of annuities upon any number of lives; as also, of reversions. To which is added, an appendix concerning the expectations of life and probabilities of survivorship.

De Moivre, French Huguenot mathematician and demographer, formulated the hypothesis that among a body of persons over a certain age the successive annual decreases by death are nearly equal.

1870 CE

#171

Anthropométrie, ou mesure des différentes facultés de l’homme.

In his classification of various populations, Quetelet adopted the plan of determining the standard or typical “mean man” as a basis, using stature, weight, or complexion, etc., as a measure in each partic…

2020 CE

#12156

Archiving web content on the Coronavirus Disease (Covid-19).

https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2020/03/26/archiving-web-content-on-the-coronavirus-disease-covid-19/ "The National Library of Medicine is archiving web and social media documenting the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbr…

2012 CE

#9458

Atlas of epidemic Britain: A twentieth century picture.

1973 CE

#9131

Awakenings.

Revised editions, 1976 and 1991. "It recounts the life histories of those who had been victims of the 1920s encephalitis lethargica epidemic.[2] Sacks chronicles his efforts in the late 1960s to help these patients at…

2005 CE

#10864

Bats are natural reservoirs of SARS-like coronaviruses.

Dated October 28, 2005, roughly two years after the outbreak of SARS, the natural reservoirs of this class of coronaviruses was discovered. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this entry and its interpretation.)

1825 CE–1835 CE

#1696

Beiträge zur medizinischen Statistik un Staatsarzneikunde. 2 vols.

1843 CE

#1677

Bibliotheca epidemiographica.

A second edition was published in 1862. Digital facsimile of the second edition from the Medical Heritage Library at the Internet Archive, at this link.

2001 CE

#11853

Biology of plagues: Evidence from historical populations.

2005 CE

#14029

Body counts: Medical quantification in historical and sociological perspective / La quantificattion medicale, perspectives historiques et sociologigues. Edited by Gérard Jorland, Annick Opinel and George Weisz.

1998 CE

#10574

Born to die: Disease and New World conquest, 1492-1650.

"The biological mingling of the previously separated Old and New Worlds began with the first voyage of Columbus. The exchange was a mixed blessing: It led to the disappearance of entire peoples in the Americas, but it…

2014 CE

#10879

Brief report: Evidence for camel-to-human transmission of MERS coronavirus.

Dated June 26, 2014. Using viral genomics and PCR, the Saudi authors demonstrated that full genome sequences of a man, and the camel he had contact with, were identical. Available from nejm.org at this link. (Thanks t…

2012 CE

#10877

Brief Report: Isolation of a novel coronavirus from a man with pneumonia in Saudi Arabia.

This paper, dated November 8, 2012, characterized the virus up to and including its genome sequence, including radiology and imaging findings, lab findings, diagnosis and management. The authors tentatively named the …

2021 CE

#13677

C'rona pandemic comics.

https://worldofviruses.unl.edu/crona-comix/

1989 CE

#10340

Cancer mapping, edited by Peter Boyle, Calum S. Muir, and Ekkehard Grundmann.

The first chapter, by G. M. Howe is "Historical evolution of disease mapping in general and specifically of cancer mapping." The book as a whole discusses the wide range of cancer maps and atlases in U.S., Europe and …

2003 CE

#11755

Cattle plague: A history.

"Cattle Plague: A History is the most comprehensive general study of the history of cattle plague or rinderpest yet attempted, of which there has not been a book in English since 1866. With its stranglehold on the eco…

2003 CE

#10862

Characterization of a novel coronavirus associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome.

Dated May 30, 2003. Rota and team at the CDC determined the sequence of the complete genome of SARS-CoV, and characterized the viral genome. Order of authorship in the published paper was Rota, Oberste, Monroe....DeRi…

2005 CE

#11335

Characterization of the reconstructed 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic virus.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Tumpey, Basler, Aguilar... Taubenberger. Reconstruction of the genome of the 1918 Spanish Influenza virus from frozen tissue samples from a mass grave of victims of the…

1827 CE

#10507

Charte über die geographische Ausbreitung der Krankheiten.

The first world map of the distribution of human disease. For Schnurrer's work in epidemiology and his map, which was published separately from his books, see Brömer, "The first global map of the distribution of …

2015 CE

#7504

Cherokee medicine, colonial germs: An indigenous nation’s fight against smallpox, 1518–1824.

2008 CE

#10509

Cholera and nation: Doctoring the Victorian social body.

1876 CE

#10681

Cholera epidemics in East Africa. An account of the several diffusions of the disease in the country from 1821 till 1872, with an outline of the geography, ethnology, and trade connections of the regions through which the epidemics passed.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2013 CE

#12141

Cholera in Detroit: A history.

1959 CE

#5111.4

Cholera.

Includes a section on the history of cholera. WHO Monograph Series,No. 43.

1823 CE–1825 CE

#10503

Chronik der Seuchen in Verbindung mit der gleichzeitigen Vorgängen in der physischen Welt und in der Geschichte der Menschen. Erster Theil vom Anfang der Geschichte bis in die Mitte des fünfzehnten Jahrhunderts. Zeiter Theil von der Mitte des fünzehnten Jahrhunderts bis auf die neuste Zeit. (2 vols.)

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2022 CE

#14049

Climate change increases cross-species viral transmission risk.

1) Using a phylogeographical model of the mammal-virus network, and projections of geographical range shifts, the authors assert that 3,139 mammal species will aggregate in new combinations at high elevations, seeking…

2014 CE

#10930

Clinical care of two patients with Ebola virus disease in the United States.

Report on Ebola virus disease management from the Emory University unit and its specialists detailing the diagnosis, management, complications and expectations of this illness for infectious disease physicians. The au…

2014 CE

#10929

Clinical illness and outcomes in patients with Ebola in Sierra Leone.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Schieffelin, Shaffer, Goba. The authors used "quantitative reverse-transcriptase-polymerase-chain-reaction assays to assess the load of Ebola virus (EBOV, Zaire species) in a…

1778 CE

#13852

Collection d'observations sur les maladies et constitutions épidémiques: Ouvrage qui expose une suite de quinze années d'observations, & dans lequel les épidémies, les les constitutions régnantes & intercurrentes, sont liées, selon le voeu d'Hippocrate, avec les causes météorologiques, locales & relatives aux différens climats, ainsi qu'avec l'histoire naturelle & médicale de la Normandie. On y joint un appendix sur l'ordre des constitutions épidémiques ... 2 vols.

This work is divided into four parts: "The first, which occupies the first volume, contains a general description of Normandy, considerations about its climate, its people, their morals and habits, and the most common…

1993 CE

#8811

Colonizing the body: State medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century India.

An authoritative account of the way that medicine was practiced in India in adaptation to the situation faced by physicians and the state in India, focusing on three major epidemic diseases: smallpox, cholera plague.

2018 CE

#9959

CONTAGION: Historical views of diseases and epidemics.

http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/contagion/ This was the original version of this digital library. It includes commentary. It may be available through the Internet Archive, Archive-It facility or through the Wayback Machine…

2012 CE

#10418

Contagion: How commerce has spread disease.

2001 CE

#10534

Contagious divides: Epidemics and race in San Francisco's Chinatown.

2003 CE

#10860

Coronavirus as a possible cause of severe acute respiratory syndrome.

Dated April 19, 2003, this paper identified and reproduced microscopic images of the novel viral agent. It was the first official journal publication on SARS. Order of authorship in the published paper was Peiris, Lai…

2020 CE

#13519

Correspondence. Transmission of 2019 nCoV infection from an asymptomatic contact in Germany.

Posted online 1-30-20, updated 2-6-20, and published in print on March 5, 2020. First report of the "asymptomatic transmission" of Covid-19. The authors wrote, “The fact that asymptomatic persons are potential s…

2020 CE

#12190

Covid-19 changed how the world does science, together. Never before, scientists say, have so many of the world's researchers focused so urgently on a single topic. Nearly all other research has ground to a halt.

April 1, 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/01/world/europe/coronavirus-science-research-cooperation.html "Using flag-draped memes and military terminology, the Trump administration and its Chinese counterparts hav…

2020 CE

#12186

COVID-19 COMPILER. MAP

https://covid19.topos.com/ "COVID-19 Compiler aims to display relevant data about the novel coronavirus outbreak in the United States. "Our goal is to provide a multidimensional view of covid-19’s impact in coun…

1840 CE

#13663

De la peste observée en Égypte. Recherches et considérations sur cette maladie.

Includes two hand-colored lithographs depicting costumes of "plague doctors" -- one from the Middle Ages in Marseille, the other from Marseille in 1819; the similarities are striking! Digital facsimile from wellcomeco…

1717 CE

#5232

De noxiis paludum effluviis, eorumque remediis.

Lancisi suggested that since malaria disappears after drainage it was due to some sort of poison emanating from marshes and possibly transmitted by mosquitoes. He planned a drainage scheme for marshy regions. His work…

1531 CE

#5521

De peste Brittanica commentariolus vere aureus.

Schyller’s book on sweating sickness deals with the German epidemic of 1528-30.

1546 CE

#2528

De sympathia et antipathia rerum liber unus. De contagione et contagiosis morbis et curatione.

Though Fracastoro wrote this book more than a century before Leewenhoek invented the microscope, and could only express the theory of contagion in very general terms, this book represents a landmark in the development…

1987 CE

#12107

Death and disease in Southeast Asia: Explorations in social, medical, and demographic history. Edited by Norman G. Owen.

2009 CE

#12021

Death before birth: Fetal health and mortality in historical perspective.

2001 CE

#10695

Death on the Nile. Disease and the Demography of Roman Egypt.

1998 CE

#9375

Deciphering global epidemics: Analytical approaches to the disease records of world cities, 1888-1912.

1982 CE

#10572

Demographic collapse: Indian Peru, 1520-1620.

The first in depth study of the demographic effects of the Spanish conquest. Cook estimated population size on the basis of archaeology, carrying capacity of the agricultural systems, disease mortality, depopulation r…

1969 CE

#11322

Demography in early America: Beginnings of the statistical mind 1600-1800.

Covering the period 1600–1800, the author deals with demography in its economic, political, and social aspects. The work is particularly concerned with the development of health-related and scientific aspects of…

2013 CE

#10564

Design for information: An introduction to the histories, theories, and best practices behind effective information visualizations.

Visually splendid; includes frequent comparisons of modern computer representations with historical examples.

2009 CE

#13728

Detecting influenza epidemics using search engine query data.

Abstract "Seasonal influenza epidemics are a major public health concern, causing tens of millions of respiratory illnesses and 250,000 to 500,000 deaths worldwide each year1. In addition to seasonal influenza, a new …