A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 1 (of 2) / From A.D. 664 to the Extinction of Plague Papyras Classics

A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 1 (of 2) / From A.D. 664 to the Extinction of Plague

by Charles Creighton

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Contents

  1. Preface
  2. Errata
  3. Chapter I
  4. Pestilence in England and Ireland in the Seventh Century
  5. Early Epidemics not connected with Famine
  6. Medieval Famine-pestilences
  7. Epidemics of St Anthony’s Fire, or Ergotism
  8. Generalities on Medieval Famines in England
  9. Chapter II
  10. Leprosy in Medieval Medical Treatises
  11. The Biblical Associations of Leprosy
  12. The Medieval Religious Sentiment towards Lepers
  13. The English Leper-houses
  14. Leper-houses in Scotland and Ireland
  15. The Prejudice against Lepers
  16. Laws against Lepers
  17. Causes of Medieval Leprosy
  18. Chapter III
  19. Symptoms and Type of the Black Death
  20. Estimates of the Mortality
  21. The Antecedents of the Black Death
  22. The Theory of the Plague-Virus
  23. The Theory tested by Modern Instances
  24. Relation of Typhus to Bubo-plague
  25. Chapter IV
  26. Direct effects of the Black Death
  27. More lasting effects on Farming, Industries, and Population
  28. The Epidemics following the Black Death
  29. Medical Evidence of the Continuance of Plague
  30. The Fourteenth Century Chronology continued
  31. The Public Health in the Fifteenth Century
  32. Chronology of Plagues in the Fifteenth Century
  33. Plague and other pestilences in Scotland and Ireland, 1349-1475
  34. Chapter V
  35. The Second Sweat in 1508
  36. The Third Sweat in 1517
  37. The Fourth Sweat in 1528
  38. The English Sweat on the Continent in 1529
  39. The Fifth Sweat in 1551
  40. Antecedents of the English Sweat
  41. A form of Sweat afterwards endemic in Normandy
  42. Theory of the English Sweat
  43. The Habitat of the Virus
  44. The Extinction of the Sweat in England
  45. Chapter VI
  46. The London Plague of 1563
  47. Preventive Practice in Plague-time under the Tudors
  48. Sanitation in Plantagenet and Tudor times
  49. The Disposal of the Dead
  50. Chronology of Plague, 1564-1592
  51. The London Plague of 1592-1593
  52. Plague in Scotland, 1495-1603
  53. Plague in Ireland in the Tudor period
  54. Chapter VII
  55. Cambridge Black Assizes
  56. Oxford Black Assizes
  57. Exeter Black Assizes
  58. Poverty and Vagrancy in Tudor England
  59. Influenza
  60. Chapter VIII
  61. Earliest Notices of the French Pox in Scotland and England
  62. English Writings on the Pox in the 16th Century
  63. Origin of the Epidemic of 1494
  64. Chapter IX
  65. Smallpox in the Arabic Annals
  66. Theory of the nature of Smallpox
  67. European Smallpox in the Middle Ages
  68. Measles in Medieval Writings
  69. History of the name “Pocks” in English
  70. Smallpox in England in the 16th Century
  71. Smallpox in the 17th Century
  72. Smallpox in Continental Writings of the 16th century
  73. Chapter X
  74. The Growth of London in the Tudor and Stuart Periods
  75. The London Plague of 1603
  76. The Plague of 1603 in the country near London
  77. Annual Plague in London after 1603
  78. Plague in the Provinces in 1603 and following years
  79. Ireland
  80. Plague in Scotland, 1603-24
  81. Malignant Fever preceding the Plague of 1625
  82. The London Plague of 1625
  83. The Plague of 1625 near London
  84. Plague in the Provinces in 1625 and following years
  85. The London Plague of 1636
  86. Fever in London
  87. Review of Fever in England to 1643
  88. War-typhus in Oxfordshire and Berkshire
  89. War-typhus at Tiverton in 1644
  90. Plague in the Provinces during the Civil Wars
  91. Plague in Scotland during the Civil Wars
  92. Plague in Chester &c. and in Ireland, 1647-1650
  93. Fever in England, 1651-2
  94. Fever and Influenza, 1657-9
  95. (Sea Scurvy, Flux, Fever, and Yellow Fever.)
  96. The first accounts of Sea Scurvy
  97. Remarkable Epidemic in Drake’s Fleet 1585-6
  98. Sicknesses of Voyages, continued: Management of Scurvy
  99. Scurvy in the East India Company’s Ships: Professional Treatment
  100. Sickness in the Colonizing of Virginia and New England
  101. West Indian Colonization: Yellow Fever and the Slave Trade
  102. The Great Mortality in the occupying of Jamaica
  103. Literature of the Great Plague
  104. Antecedents, Beginnings and Progress of the Plague of 1665
  105. Mortality and Incidents of the Great Plague
  106. Plague near London in 1665
  107. Plague in the Provinces in 1665-6
  108. The Epidemic of Plague at Eyam, 1665-6
  109. The Last of Plague in England

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