1780 SAILLANT, Charles Jacques (1747 – 1804)
Tableau historique et raisonné des épidémies catharrales vulgairement dites la grippe; depuis 1510 jusques et y compris celle de 1780.
GMN 5488 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6429
1799 WEBSTER, Noah (1758 – 1843)
A brief history of epidemic and pestilential diseases. 2 vols.
“The best general summary of epidemiological opinion at the beginning of the nineteenth century; and few works surpass it as a compendium of earlier speculations in this field”. (Winslow). A great linguist, Webster wa…
GMN 1675.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2338
1802 VILLALBA, Joaquín de (1752 – 1807)
Epidemiologia española o historia cronológica de las pestes, contagios, epidemias y epizootias que han acaecido en España: Desde la venida de los cartagineses hasta el año 1801.... 2 vols.
A chronological history of epidemics (plagues, contagions and epizootics) occurring in Spain to the end of the 18th century. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 1676 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2341
1817 –1818 OZANAM, Jean Antoine François (1773 – 1837)
Histoire médicale générale et particulière des maladies épidémiques, contagieuses et épizootiques qui ont régné en Europe depuis les temps les plus reculés, et notamment depuis le XIVe siècle jusqu’à nos jours. 2 vols.
The history of epidemics and epizootics in Europe since the 14th century. Digital facsimile of the first edition from Google Books at this link. Greatly revised, corrected and augmented second edition, Paris & Lyon, 1…
GMN 11540 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13739
1839 DICKSON, Samuel Henry (1798 – 1872)
On dengue; its history, pathology, and treatment.
GMN 5471 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7610
1843 HAESER, Heinrich (1811 – 1884)
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.
GMN 1677 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2343
1847 GRUNER, Christian Gottfried (1744 – 1815)
Scriptores de sudore anglico superstites. Colliget C. G. Gruner. Post mortem auctoris adomavit et edidit H. Haeser.
A collection of all the important earlier writings on sweating sickness.
GMN 5524 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6614
1852 THOMPSON, Theophilus (1807 – 1860)
Annals of influenza or epidemic catarrhal fever in Great Britain from 1510-1837.
GMN 5489 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6432
1865 HIRSCH, August (1817 – 1894); HECKER, Justus Friedrich Karl (1795 – 1850)
Die grossen Volkskrankheiten des Mittelalters. Historischpathologische Untersuchungen. Von J. F. K. Hecker. Gesammelt und in erweiteter Bearbeitung hrsg. von A. Hirsch.
A collection of essays on the Black Death, the dancing mania, and the English sweat, published 1832-34 and later in a collective English edition, The epidemics of the Middle Ages, 2 pts., London, 1833-35; reprinted 18…
GMN 1678 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2353
1866 HIRSCH, August (1817 – 1894)
Die Meningitis cerebro-spinalis epidemica vom historisch-geographischen und pathologisch-therapeutischen Standpunkte.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 12347 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14571
1872 MACPHERSON, John (1817 – 1890)
Annals of cholera: from the earliest periods to the year 1817.
GMN 5111.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6064
1876 MACNAMARA, Nottidge Charles (1832 – 1918)
A history of Asiatic cholera.
GMN 5111.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6068
1876 CHRISTIE, James
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.
GMN 10681 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12874
1879 BAKER, Sir George Edward Dunstan Sherston (1846 – 1923)
The laws relating to quarantine of Her Majesty's dominions at home and abroad, and of the principal foreign states, including the sections of the Public health act, 1875, which bear upon measures of prevention
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9028 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11207
1882 HAESER, Heinrich (1811 – 1884)
Geschichte der epidemischen Krankheiten.
Forms vol. 3 of his Lehrbuch der Geschichte der Medizin und der epidemischen Krankheiten, 3te. Aufl.
GMN 1679 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2358
1882 PFEIFFER, Ludwig (1842 – 1921); RULAND, C
Pestilentia in nummis.
A study of medals and tokens relating to epidemics of plague and other infectious diseases.
GMN 5132 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6140
1891 –1894 CREIGHTON, Charles (1847 – 1927)
A 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.
A classical contribution to modern epidemiology, of which Creighton may be said to have been the founder. Reprinted with new introductory material, 1965. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 1680 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2363
1908 –1912 STICKER, Georg (1860 – 1960)
Abhandlungen aus der Seuchengeschichte und Seuchenlehre. Pt. 1: Die Pest. Pt. 2: Die Cholera. 2 vols. in 3.
GMN 1681 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2368
1916 PRINZING, Friedrich (1859 – 1938); WESTERGAARD, Harald Ludvig (1853 – 1936)
Epidemics resulting from wars. Edited by Harald Westergaard.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 1682 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2374
1931 CARTER, Henry Rose (1852 – 1925)
Yellow fever: an epidemiological and historical study of its place of origin. Edited by Laura Armistead Carter and Wade Hampton Frost.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 5468 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8625
1932 GREENWOOD, Major (1880 – 1949)
Epidemiology, historical and experimental.
GMN 1683 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2378
1935 GREENWOOD, Major (1880 – 1949)
Epidemics and crowd diseases: An introduction to the history of epidemiology.
GMN 1683.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2383
1947 ASHBURN, Percy Moreau (1872 – 1940)
The ranks of death: A medical history of the conquest of America
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 10216 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12405
1950 ALIVIZATOS, G. P.
The early smallpox epidemics in Europe and the plague of Athens after Thucydides.
GMN 13804 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16091
1953 RODENWALDT, Ernst Robert Karl (1878 – 1965)
Pest in Venedig 1575-1577. Ein Beitrag zur Frage der Infektkette bei den Pestepidemien West-Europas.
Rodenwaldt studied of the course of plague in Venice from 1575-1577 and the measures taken to combat the epidemic, considering symptoms, transmitter, environment, climatic influences, and the success and failure of th…
GMN 10504 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12697
1955 COOK, Sherburne Friend (1896 – 1974)
The epidemic of 1830-1833 in California and Oregon.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 10852 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13048
1959 POLLITZER, Robert (1885 – 1968)
Cholera.
Includes a section on the history of cholera. WHO Monograph Series,No. 43.
GMN 5111.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6070
1965 ACKERKNECHT, Erwin Heinz (1906 – 1988)
History and geography of the most important diseases.
Originally published in German, 1963.
GMN 1685.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2394
1965 COOPER, Donald B.
Epidemic disease in Mexico City 1761-1813: An administrative, social, and medical study.
GMN 7933 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10107
1965 SCOTT, David (1916 – )
Epidemic disease in Ghana 1901-1960.
GMN 10680 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12873
1967 LANGLANDS, Bryan Wooleston (1928 – 1989)
The sleeping sickness epidemic of Uganda 1900-1920: A study in historical geography.
GMN 10679 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12872
1968 STEINER, Paul Eby (1902 – 1978)
Disease in the Civil War: Natural biological warfare in 1861-1865.
GMN 10802 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12998
1969 FRANCO, Odair
História da febre-amarela no Brasil.
Digital facsimile from bvsms.saude.gov.br at this link.
GMN 8936 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11114
1971 PAUL, John Rodman (1893 – 1971)
A history of poliomyelitis.
GMN 4672.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/937
1971 FORD, John (1910 – )
The role of the trypanosomiases in African ecology: A study of the Tsetse fly problem.
GMN 10678 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12871
1972 CAULFIELD, Ernest (1893 – 1972)
Disease and society in provincial Massachusetts: Collected accounts, 1736-1939.
Includes Caulfield's "A history of the terrible epidemic, vulgarly called the throat distemper, as it occurred in His Majesty's New England colonies between 1735 and 1740," Yale J Biol Med. 11 (1939) 219–272. availabl…
GMN 9189 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11370
1973 SACKS, Oliver Wolf (1933 – 2015)
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…
GMN 9131 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11310
1976 MCNEILL, William H. (1917 – 2016)
Plagues and peoples.
GMN 9689 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11876
1977 DENEVAN, William Maxfield (1931 – )
The native population of the Americas in 1492. Edited by William M. Devevan.
"The discovery of America was followed by possibly the greatest demographic disaster in the history of the world." Research by some scholars provides population estimates of the pre-contact Americas to be as high as 1…
GMN 7977 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10153
1978 GOTTFRIED, Robert Steven
Epidemic disease in fifteenth century England: The medical response and the demographic consequences.
GMN 13020 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15270
1982 COOK, Noble David (1941 – )
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…
GMN 10572 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12765
1986 CARMICHAEL, Anne G.
Plague and the poor in Renaissance Florence.
"This book uses Florentine death registers to show the changing character of plague from the first outbreak of the Black Death in 1348 to the mid-fifteenth century. Through an innovative study of this evidence, Profes…
GMN 11851 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14055
1987 UCSF ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS; GLBT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
The AIDS History Project.
https://www.library.ucsf.edu/archives/aids/ "In 1987, the Archives & Special Collections initiated, in collaboration with the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society (GLBHT HS) and University of Califor…
GMN 10557 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12750
1987 OWEN, Norman G.
Death and disease in Southeast Asia: Explorations in social, medical, and demographic history. Edited by Norman G. Owen.
GMN 12107 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14316
1989 CROSBY, Alfred W. Jr. (1931 – 2018)
America's forgotten pandemic: The influenza of 1918.
First published as Epidemic and peace 1918, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1976. New edition, 2003.
GMN 11924 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14129
1991 MATOSSIAN, Mary Kilbourne
Poisons of the past: Molds, epidemics, and history.
GMN 10036 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12225
1991 BLISS, Michael John William (1941 – 2017)
Plague: A story of smallpox in Montreal.
GMN 10984 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13180
1991 PATTERSON, Karl David (1941 – ); PYLE, Gerald F. (1937 – )
The geography and mortality of the 1918 influenza pandemic.
A summary of the international impact of the 1918 pandemic, its movement around the globe, and mortality estimates for various countries.
GMN 12110 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14319
1992 NÚÑEZ, Marcelo Frías
Enfermedad y sociedad en la crisis colonial del antiguo régimen: Nueva Granada en el tránsito del siglo XVIII al XIX, las epidemias de viruelas.
GMN 8005 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10181
1993 KIPLE, Kenneth F. (1939 – 2016)
The Cambridge world history of human disease. Edited by Kenneth F. Kiple [and 12 co-editors].
An encyclopedic world history of disease, incorporating a geographic approach.
GMN 6963 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9128
