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Plague (transmitted by fleas from rats to humans)

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1799 CEA brief history of epidemic and pestilential diseases. 2 vols.
WEBSTER, Noah (1758 – 1843)
WEBSTER, Noah (1758 – 1843)
1721 CEA Collection of Very Valuable and Scarce Pieces relating to the last Plague in the year 1665. viz. I. Orders drawn up and published by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London to prevent the spreading of the infection. II. An account of the first rise, progress, symptoms and cure of the Plague, being the substance of a letter from Doctor Hodges to a person of quality. III. Necessary directions for the prevention for cure of the plague, with divers remedies of small charge by the College of Physicians. IV. Reflections on the Weekly Bills of Mortality, so far as they relate to all the plagues which have happend in London from the year 1592 to the Great Plague in 1665, and some other particular diseases. With a preface shewing the usefulness of this collection: some errors of Dr. Mead, and his misrepresentations of Dr. Hodges and some authors. To which is added An Account of the plague at Naples in 1656, etc. [Compiled by William Beckett.].
BECKETT, William
BECKETT, William
1970 CEA history of bubonic plague in the British Isles.
SHREWSBURY, John Findlay Drew (1898 – 1971)
1891 CE​–1894 CEA history of epidemics in Britain. Vol. 1: From A. D. 664 to the extinction of plague. Vol. 2: From the extinction of plague to the present time.
CREIGHTON, Charles (1847 – 1927)
CREIGHTON, Charles (1847 – 1927)
1722 CEA journal of the plague year: Being observatrions or memorials, of the most remarkable occurrences, as well publick as private, which happened in London during the last great visitation in 1665. Written by a citizen who continued all the while in London. Never made publick before.
DEFOE, Daniel (1660 – 1731)
DEFOE, Daniel (1660 – 1731)
1720 CEA short discourse concerning pestilential contagion, and the methods to be used to prevent it.
MEAD, Richard (1673 – 1754)
MEAD, Richard (1673 – 1754)
1791 CEA treatise of the plague: Containing an historical journal, and medical account, of the plague, at Aleppo, in the years 1760, 1761, and 1762.
RUSSELL, Patrick (1727 – 1805)
RUSSELL, Patrick (1727 – 1805)
1926 CEA treatise on pneumonic plague.
WU, Lien-Teh (1879 – 1959)
WU, Lien-Teh (1879 – 1959)
1908 CE​–1912 CEAbhandlungen aus der Seuchengeschichte und Seuchenlehre. Pt. 1: Die Pest. Pt. 2: Die Cholera. 2 vols. in 3.
STICKER, Georg (1860 – 1960)
1548 CEAlexandrū Trallianū Iatrū Biblia Dyokaideka. Alexandri Tralliani medici libri XII. Rhazae De pestilentia libellus ex Syrorum lingua in Graecam translatus. Edited by Jacques Goupil.
ALEXANDER OF TRALLES [ἈΛΈΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ Ὁ ΤΡΑΛΛΙΑΝΌΣ; ALEXANDER TRALLIANUS] (525 – 605) RHAZES [MUHAMMAD IBN ZAKARIYĀ AL-RĀZĪ (PERSIAN: محمد زکریای رازی‎ ] (854 – 925) GOUPYL, Jacques (Goupil) (1525 – 1564)
1789 CEAn account of the principle lazarettos in Europe. With various papers relative to the plague: Together with further observations on some foreign prisons and hospitals and additional remarks on the present state of those in Great Britain and Ireland.
HOWARD, John (1726 – 1790)
HOWARD, John (1726 – 1790)
1755 CEAn historical account of the several plagues that have appeared in the world since the year 1346. With an enquiry Into the present prevailing opinion, that the plague is a contagious distemper, capable of being transported in merchandize, from one country to another. In which the absurdity of such notions is exposed, and the arguments that have been made use of to support them, refuted. To which are added a particular account of the yellow fever, shewing its periodical appearance to be similar to the plague. Also observations on Dr Mackenzie's letters; read before the Royal Society on this subject. And an abstract of Capt. Isaac Clemens's voyage in the Sloop Fawey, from their arrival in the Mould of Algiers, to the sinking of her, on a supposition that the plague was on board her. Taken from his log-book
INGRAM, Dale (1710 – 1793)
1925 CEArrowsmith.
LEWIS, Sinclair (1885 – 1951)
LEWIS, Sinclair (1885 – 1951)
2001 CEBiology of plagues: Evidence from historical populations.
SCOTT, Susan (1953 – )
DUNCAN, Christopher J.
DUNCAN, Christopher J.
2001 CEBlack death, white medicine: Bubonic plague and the politics of public health in colonial Senegal, 1914-1945.
ECHENBERG, Myron (1940 – )
1980 CEBubonic plague in early modern Russia: Public health & urban disaster.
ALEXANDER, John T.
ALEXANDER, John T.
1996 CEBubonic plague in nineteenth-century China.
BENEDICT, Carol Ann
1473 CEBüchlein der Ordnung (Pest Regiment)
STEINHÖWEL, Heinrich (Steinhäuel or Steinheil) (1412 – 1482)
1993 CEColonizing the body: State medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century India.
ARNOLD, David (1946 – )
1953 CEConquest of plague. A study of the evolution of epidemiology.
HIRST, Leonard Fabian (1882 – 1964)
c. 1474 CEDe epidemia et peste.
VELASCUS DE TARENTA (VALESCO,VALASCUS) (1382 – 1426)
1646 CEDe peste libri quatuor, truculentissimi morbi historiam ratione et experientiâ confirmatum exhibentes.
DIEMERBROECK, Ysbrand van (Isbrand) (1609 – 1674)
1677 CEDe postrema Melitensi lue praxis historica.
HASEIAH, Laurentius [HASEIAC]
1926 CEDie ersten gedruckten Pestschriften.
SUDHOFF, Karl Friedrich Jakob (1853 – 1938)
SUDHOFF, Karl Friedrich Jakob (1853 – 1938)
KLEBS, Arnold Carl (1870 – 1943)
KLEBS, Arnold Carl (1870 – 1943)
1884 CEDie grosse Sterben in Deutschland in den Jahren 1348 bis 1351 und die folgenden Pestepidemien bis zum Schluss des 14. Jahrhunderts.
LECHNER, Karl
1865 CEDie grossen Volkskrankheiten des Mittelalters. Historischpathologische Untersuchungen. Von J. F. K. Hecker. Gesammelt und in erweiteter Bearbeitung hrsg. von A. Hirsch.
HIRSCH, August (1817 – 1894)
HIRSCH, August (1817 – 1894)
HECKER, Justus Friedrich Karl (1795 – 1850)
HECKER, Justus Friedrich Karl (1795 – 1850)
1995 CEEncyclopedia of plague and pestilence.
KOHN, George Childs
2012 CEEncylopedia of the black death.
BYRNE, Joseph Patrick
1978 CEEpidemic disease in fifteenth century England: The medical response and the demographic consequences.
GOTTFRIED, Robert Steven
GOTTFRIED, Robert Steven
1909 CEEradicating plague in San Francisco. Report of the Citizen's Health Committee and an account of its work. With brief descriptions of the measures taken, copies of ordinances in aid of sanitation, articles by sanitarians on the nature of plague and the best means of getting rid of it, facsimiles of circulars issued by the committee and a list of subscribers to the health fund. March 31, 1909. Prepared by Frank Morton Todd, historian for the Committee.
TODD, Frank Morton
2016 CEEthnographic plague: Configuring disease on the Chinese-Russian frontier.
LYNTERIS, Christos
2015 CEExpelling the plague: The Health Office and the implementation of quarantine in Dubrovnik, 1377-1533.
TOMIC, Zlata Blažina (1926 – ) BLAŽINA, Vesna
1493 CE​–1494 CEFascicolo di medicina. Tr: Sebastianus Manilius. Add: Petrus de Tussignano: Consilium pro peste evitanda. Mundinus: Anatomia (Ed: Petrus Andreas Morsianus).
MONDINO DE LUZZI, [MUNDINUS] (1270 – 1326) KETHAM, Johannes de [Johannes von Kirchheim] ( – 1490) TOSSIGNANO, Pietro da (PETRUS DE TUSSIGNANO) (1350 – 1401) MANILIO, Sebastiano (Sebastianus Manilius) MORSIANUS, Petrus Andreas ( – 1501)
1491 CEFasciculus medicinae. Add: Petrus de Tussignano: Consilium pro peste evitanda.
KETHAM, Johannes de [Johannes von Kirchheim] ( – 1490) TOSSIGNANO, Pietro da (PETRUS DE TUSSIGNANO) (1350 – 1401)
1981 CEFighting the plague in seventeenth century Italy.
CIPOLLA, Carlo M. (1922 – 2000)
1667 CEGods terrible voice in the city of London wherein you have the narration of the two late dreadful judgements of plague and fire, inflicted by the Lord upon that city; the former in the year 1665. The latter in the year 1666
VINCENT, Thomas (1634 – 1678)
2007 CEJustinian's flea: The first great plague and the end of the Roman Empire.
ROSEN, William (1955 – 2016)
1894 CELa peste bubonique à Hong-Kong.
YERSIN, Alexandre Émile Jean (1863 – 1943)
YERSIN, Alexandre Émile Jean (1863 – 1943)
1895 CELa peste bubonique. By Alexandre Yersin with L.C.A. Calmette and A. Borrel.
YERSIN, Alexandre Émile Jean (1863 – 1943)
YERSIN, Alexandre Émile Jean (1863 – 1943) CALMETTE, Léon Charles Albert (1863 – 1933) BORREL, Amédée (1867 – 1936)
1911 CELa peste de 1720 à Marseille et en France d’après des documents inédits.
GAFFAREL, Paul Louis Jacques (1843 – 1920) DURANTY, Marquis de
1898 CELa propagation de la peste.
SIMOND, P. L.
SIMOND, P. L.
1976 CELes hommes et la peste en France et dans les pays européens et méditerranéens. Tome I: La peste dans l'histoire. Tome II: Les hommes face à la peste. 2 vols.
BIRABEN, Jean-Noël
1906 CELes inoculations antipesteuses.
HAFFKINE, Waldemar Mordecai Wolff (1860 – 1930)
HAFFKINE, Waldemar Mordecai Wolff (1860 – 1930)
1894 CELoimographia. An account of the great plague of London in the year 1665
BOGHURST, William (1631 – 1685)
PAYNE, Joseph Frank (1840 – 1910)
PAYNE, Joseph Frank (1840 – 1910)
1665 CELoimologia: A consolatory advice, and some brief observations concerning the present pest.
THOMSON, George (1619 – 1676)
THOMSON, George (1619 – 1676)
1666 CELoimotomia, or, The pest anatomized in these following particulars, Viz. 1. The material cause of the pest, 2. The efficient cause of the pest, 3. The subject part of the pest, 4. The signs of the pest, 5. An historical account of the dissections of a pestilential body by the author, and the consequences thereof, 6. Reflections and observations on the fore-said dissection, 7. Directions preservative and curative against the pest: Together with the authors apology against the calumnies of the Galenists, and a word to Mr. Nath. Hodges, concerning his late Vindiciae medicinae.
THOMSON, George (1619 – 1676)
THOMSON, George (1619 – 1676)
1665 CELondon’s dreadful visitation, or, a collection of all the Bills of Mortality for the present year: beginning the 27th of December 1664, and ending the 19th of December following…By the Company of Parish Clerks of London.
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1992 CEMiasmas and disease: Public health and the environment in the pre-industrial age. Translated by Elizabeth Potter.
CIPOLLA, Carlo M. (1922 – 2000)
2011 CEMiraculous plagues: An epidemiology of early New England narrative.
SILVA, Cristobal
1801 CEObservations on the increase and decrease of different disease, and particularly of the plague.
HEBERDEN, William Jr. (1767 – 1845)