A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 1

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CUP Archive, 1965
 

Contents

CHAPTER
1
Other medieval epidemics not from famine
16
Few traces of epidemics of Ergotism reason of Englands immunity
52
Generalities on medieval famines in England
65
Medieval meanings of lepra
76
England special destination and duration
86
ENGLAND AFTER THE BLACK DEATH WITH THE EPIDEMICS
98
Leperhouses in Scotland and Ireland
99
Plague in Ireland in the Tudor period
371
CHAPTER VII
374
Exeter Black Assizes 1586
383
Influenzas and other strange fevers and fluxes 15401597
397
CHAPTER VIII
414
English writings on the Pox in the Elizabethan period with some
423
The circumstances of the great European outbreak in 1494
429
Illustrations from modern times
438

Things favouring Leprosy in the manner of lifeModern analogy
108
Contents
111
CHAPTER III
114
THE BLACK DEATH OF 13489
120
Antecedents of the Black Death in the EastOverland China
142
The Theory of BuboPlague
156
Efforts to renew the war with France
177
More lasting effects on farming industries and population
190
Epidemics following the Black Death
202
Medieval English MSS on Plague
208
The 14th century chronology continued
215
The public health in the 15th century
222
Plague c in Scotland and Ireland 13491475
233
The Second outbreak in 1508
244
The Fourth Sweat in 1528
250
Extension of the Fourth Sweat to the Continent in 1529
256
Antecedents of the English Sweat
265
Endemic Sweat of Normandy
273
Extinction of the Sweat in England
279
The London Plague of 1563
304
Sanitation in Plantagenet and Tudor times
322
The disposal of the dead
332
The London Plague of 15921593
351
Plague in Scotland 14951603Skene on the Plague 1568
360
CHAPTER IX
439
European Smallpox in the Middle Ages
445
First English notices of Smallpox in the Tudor period
456
Great increase of Smallpox in the Stuart period
463
CHAPTER X
470
Annual Plague in London after 1603
493
Malignant Fever preceding the Plague of 1625
504
The London Plague of 1625
507
Plague in the Provinces in 1625 and following years
520
The London Plague of 1636
529
Summary of causes and of European favouring conditions
546
War Typhus in Oxfordshire c and at Tiverton 164344
547
Plague in the Provinces Scotland and Ireland during the Civil Wars
555
Fever in England 165152
566
CHAPTER XI
578
The remarkable epidemic of Fever in Drakes expedition of 15856
585
the treatment
599
Sickness of Virginian and New England voyages and colonies
609
The epidemic of 16556 at the first planting of Jamaica
634
CHAPTER XII
646
Mortality and incidents of the Great PlagueCharacters of
660
Plague near London and in the Provinces 166566
679
The Plague at Colchester 166566 and the last of Plague in England
688

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