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Plague, History of

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1672Λοιμόλόγια sive pestis nuperae apud populum Londinensem grassantis narratio historica.
HODGES, Nathaniel (1629 – 1688)
1721A 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
1722A 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)
1755An 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)
1791A 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)
1799A brief history of epidemic and pestilential diseases. 2 vols.
WEBSTER, Noah (1758 – 1843)
WEBSTER, Noah (1758 – 1843)
1865Die 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)
1882Pestilentia in nummis.
PFEIFFER, Ludwig (1842 – 1921)
RULAND, C
RULAND, C
1884Die grosse Sterben in Deutschland in den Jahren 1348 bis 1351 und die folgenden Pestepidemien bis zum Schluss des 14. Jahrhunderts.
LECHNER, Karl
1891​–1894A 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)
1901Pestblätter des XV. Jahrhunderts. Hrsg. von P. Heitz, mit einleitendem Text von W.L. Scheiber.
HEITZ, Paul
1908​–1912Abhandlungen aus der Seuchengeschichte und Seuchenlehre. Pt. 1: Die Pest. Pt. 2: Die Cholera. 2 vols. in 3.
STICKER, Georg (1860 – 1960)
1911La peste de 1720 à Marseille et en France d’après des documents inédits.
GAFFAREL, Paul Louis Jacques (1843 – 1920) DURANTY, Marquis de
1914Plague and pestilence in literature and art.
CRAWFURD, Sir Raymond Henry Payne (1865 – 1938)
1925Remèdes contre la peste. Facsimilés, notes et liste bibliographique des incunables sur la peste.
KLEBS, Arnold Carl (1870 – 1943)
KLEBS, Arnold Carl (1870 – 1943) DROZ, Eugénie (1893 – 1976)
1926Die 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)
1927The plague in Shakespeare’s London.
WILSON, Frederick Perera (1876 – 1926)
1931The black death and men of learning.
CAMPBELL, Anna Montgomery (1888 – 1965)
1953Conquest of plague. A study of the evolution of epidemiology.
HIRST, Leonard Fabian (1882 – 1964)
1953Pest in Venedig 1575-1577. Ein Beitrag zur Frage der Infektkette bei den Pestepidemien West-Europas.
RODENWALDT, Ernst Robert Karl (1878 – 1965)
RODENWALDT, Ernst Robert Karl (1878 – 1965)
1954Plague.
POLLITZER, Robert (1885 – 1968)
1966Plague and plague control in the Soviet Union: History and bibliography through 1964.
POLLITZER, Robert (1885 – 1968)
1967Plague prevention and politics in Manchuria, 1910-1931.
NATHAN, Carl F.
1970A history of bubonic plague in the British Isles.
SHREWSBURY, John Findlay Drew (1898 – 1971)
1976Les 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
1976Plagues and peoples.
MCNEILL, William H. (1917 – 2016)
MCNEILL, William H. (1917 – 2016)
1977The black death in the Middle East.
DOLS, Michael Walters (1942 – )
1978Epidemic disease in fifteenth century England: The medical response and the demographic consequences.
GOTTFRIED, Robert Steven
GOTTFRIED, Robert Steven
1980Bubonic plague in early modern Russia: Public health & urban disaster.
ALEXANDER, John T.
1981Fighting the plague in seventeenth century Italy.
CIPOLLA, Carlo M. (1922 – 2000)
1983The Black Death: Natural and human disaster in medieval Europe.
GOTTFRIED, Robert Steven
GOTTFRIED, Robert Steven
1992Miasmas and disease: Public health and the environment in the pre-industrial age. Translated by Elizabeth Potter.
CIPOLLA, Carlo M. (1922 – 2000)
1993Colonizing the body: State medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century India.
ARNOLD, David (1946 – )
1994The black death.
HORROX, Rosemary (1951 – )
1995Storia della medicina e della sanità in Italia: dalla peste europea alla guerra mondiale, 1348-1918.
COSMACINI, Giorgio (1931 – )
1995Encyclopedia of plague and pestilence.
KOHN, George Childs
1996The structure of plagues and pestilences in early modern Europe. Central Europe, 1560-1640.
ECKERT, Edward A. (1920 – )
1996Bubonic plague in nineteenth-century China.
BENEDICT, Carol Ann
1998Viruses, plagues & history: Past, present, and future.
OLDSTONE, Michael B. A.
2001Black death, white medicine: Bubonic plague and the politics of public health in colonial Senegal, 1914-1945.
ECHENBERG, Myron (1940 – )
2001Biology of plagues: Evidence from historical populations.
SCOTT, Susan (1953 – ) DUNCAN, Christopher J.
2003The barbary plague: The black death in Victorian San Francisco.
CHASE, Marilyn
2005Plague and fire: Battling black death and the 1900 burning of Honolulu's Chinatown.
MOHR, James C.
2006Plague, SARS, and the story of medicine in Hong Kong.
HONG KONG MUSEUM OF MEDICAL SCIENCES SOCIETY
2007Plague and the end of antiquity: The pandemic of 541-750. Edited by Lester K. Little.
LITTLE, Lester Knox (1935 – )
2007Justinian's flea: The first great plague and the end of the Roman Empire.
ROSEN, William (1955 – 2016)
2007Plague ports: The global urban impact of bubonic plague, 1894-1901.
ECHENBERG, Myron (1940 – )
2009The plague files: Crisis management in sixteenth-century Seville.
COOK, Noble David (1941 – ) COOK, Alexandra Parma
2009Plague writing in early modern England.
GILMAN, Ernest B.
2010Storia della medicina e della sanità in Italia: Dalla peste nera ai giorni nostri.
COSMACINI, Giorgio (1931 – )