1672 HODGES, Nathaniel (1629 – 1688)
Λοιμόλόγια sive pestis nuperae apud populum Londinensem grassantis narratio historica.
Best medical record of the Great Plague of 1665. Hodges was physician to the City of London and the medical hero of the great epidemic. English translation by John Quincy, 1720: Loimologia, or, An historical account o…
GMN 5121 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6095
1721 BECKETT, William
A 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.].
Attributed to William Beckett by OCLC. Digital facsimile of the 1721 second edition from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9521 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11707
1722 DEFOE, Daniel (1660 – 1731)
A 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.
Though he may be most widely remembered as a novelist--especially for Robinson Crusoe, Defoe was an English trader, writer of non-fiction as well as fiction, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. This book is an account of…
GMN 10199 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12388
1755 INGRAM, Dale (1710 – 1793)
An 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
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 10510 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12703
1791 RUSSELL, Patrick (1727 – 1805)
A treatise of the plague: Containing an historical journal, and medical account, of the plague, at Aleppo, in the years 1760, 1761, and 1762.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9522 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11708
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
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
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
1884 LECHNER, Karl
Die grosse Sterben in Deutschland in den Jahren 1348 bis 1351 und die folgenden Pestepidemien bis zum Schluss des 14. Jahrhunderts.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9237 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11419
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
1901 HEITZ, Paul
Pestblätter des XV. Jahrhunderts. Hrsg. von P. Heitz, mit einleitendem Text von W.L. Scheiber.
GMN 5135 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8859
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
1911 GAFFAREL, Paul Louis Jacques (1843 – 1920); DURANTY, Marquis de
La peste de 1720 à Marseille et en France d’après des documents inédits.
GMN 5137 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6149
1914 CRAWFURD, Sir Raymond Henry Payne (1865 – 1938)
Plague and pestilence in literature and art.
Deals with the subject up to the end of the 18th century. Revised ed., 1951.
GMN 5138 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6151
1925 KLEBS, Arnold Carl (1870 – 1943); DROZ, Eugénie (1893 – 1976)
Remèdes contre la peste. Facsimilés, notes et liste bibliographique des incunables sur la peste.
Includes facsimile reproduction of “La régime de l’epidémie et remède contre icelle” of Jean Jacme (Johannes Jacobi), [5115], together with the “Remède très utile contre fièvre pestilencieuse” by the same writer. See …
GMN 5140 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6153
1926 SUDHOFF, Karl Friedrich Jakob (1853 – 1938); KLEBS, Arnold Carl (1870 – 1943)
Die ersten gedruckten Pestschriften.
Includes descriptions of 130 incunabula.
GMN 5141 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6155
1927 WILSON, Frederick Perera (1876 – 1926)
The plague in Shakespeare’s London.
GMN 5142 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6156
1931 CAMPBELL, Anna Montgomery (1888 – 1965)
The black death and men of learning.
GMN 5142.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6158
1953 HIRST, Leonard Fabian (1882 – 1964)
Conquest of plague. A study of the evolution of epidemiology.
GMN 5143 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6160
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
1954 POLLITZER, Robert (1885 – 1968)
Plague.
Includes a section on the history of plague. WHO Monograph Series, No. 22.
GMN 5131 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6138
1966 POLLITZER, Robert (1885 – 1968)
Plague and plague control in the Soviet Union: History and bibliography through 1964.
GMN 12125 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14334
1967 NATHAN, Carl F.
Plague prevention and politics in Manchuria, 1910-1931.
"The Chinese winter of 1910-1911 was one of death and discontent: an epidemic of pneumonic plague—the greatest since the Black Death of the fourteenth century—scourged China's three Eastern Provinces (Manchuria), and …
GMN 12581 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14820
1970 SHREWSBURY, John Findlay Drew (1898 – 1971)
A history of bubonic plague in the British Isles.
From The Great Pestilence of 1348 to the Plague of London in 1665, discussing efforts to control the disease, and its impacts on social and economic life.
GMN 5145 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6171
1976 BIRABEN, Jean-Noël
Les 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.
GMN 9236 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11418
1976 MCNEILL, William H. (1917 – 2016)
Plagues and peoples.
GMN 9689 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11876
1977 DOLS, Michael Walters (1942 – )
The black death in the Middle East.
GMN 5145.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6174
1978 GOTTFRIED, Robert Steven
Epidemic disease in fifteenth century England: The medical response and the demographic consequences.
GMN 13020 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15270
1980 ALEXANDER, John T.
Bubonic plague in early modern Russia: Public health & urban disaster.
GMN 5145.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6177
1981 CIPOLLA, Carlo M. (1922 – 2000)
Fighting the plague in seventeenth century Italy.
GMN 8028 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10204
1983 GOTTFRIED, Robert Steven
The Black Death: Natural and human disaster in medieval Europe.
GMN 13021 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15271
1992 CIPOLLA, Carlo M. (1922 – 2000)
Miasmas and disease: Public health and the environment in the pre-industrial age. Translated by Elizabeth Potter.
GMN 8804 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10982
1993 ARNOLD, David (1946 – )
Colonizing the body: State medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century India.
An authoritative account of the way that medicine was practiced in India in adaptation to the situation faced by physicians and the state in India, focusing on three major epidemic diseases: smallpox, cholera plague.
GMN 8811 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10989
1994 HORROX, Rosemary (1951 – )
The black death.
A collection of documents written by those who lived and died in the mid-fourteenth century, translated and accompanied with commentaries.
GMN 8453 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10630
1995 COSMACINI, Giorgio (1931 – )
Storia della medicina e della sanità in Italia: dalla peste europea alla guerra mondiale, 1348-1918.
GMN 8703 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10881
1995 KOHN, George Childs
Encyclopedia of plague and pestilence.
GMN 11795 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13997
1996 ECKERT, Edward A. (1920 – )
The structure of plagues and pestilences in early modern Europe. Central Europe, 1560-1640.
"The most in-depth study ever undertaken of how plague and other infectious diseases affected populations in Central Europe between 1560 and 1640. Based on quantitative data gleaned from over 800 parish registers, the…
GMN 9235 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11417
1996 BENEDICT, Carol Ann
Bubonic plague in nineteenth-century China.
The first work in English on the history of disease in China traces an epidemic of bubonic plague that began in Yunnan province in the late eighteenth century, spread throughout much of southern China in the nineteent…
GMN 11852 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14056
1998 OLDSTONE, Michael B. A.
Viruses, plagues & history: Past, present, and future.
Revised and updated edition, 2010.
GMN 7960 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10135
2001 ECHENBERG, Myron (1940 – )
Black death, white medicine: Bubonic plague and the politics of public health in colonial Senegal, 1914-1945.
GMN 10091 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12280
2001 SCOTT, Susan (1953 – ); DUNCAN, Christopher J.
Biology of plagues: Evidence from historical populations.
GMN 11853 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14057
2003 CHASE, Marilyn
The barbary plague: The black death in Victorian San Francisco.
GMN 13145 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15404
2005 MOHR, James C.
Plague and fire: Battling black death and the 1900 burning of Honolulu's Chinatown.
GMN 10515 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12708
2006 HONG KONG MUSEUM OF MEDICAL SCIENCES SOCIETY
Plague, SARS, and the story of medicine in Hong Kong.
GMN 9763 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11951
2007 LITTLE, Lester Knox (1935 – )
Plague and the end of antiquity: The pandemic of 541-750. Edited by Lester K. Little.
GMN 9687 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11874
2007 ROSEN, William (1955 – 2016)
Justinian's flea: The first great plague and the end of the Roman Empire.
GMN 9688 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11875
2007 ECHENBERG, Myron (1940 – )
Plague ports: The global urban impact of bubonic plague, 1894-1901.
"A century ago, the third bubonic plague swept the globe, taking more than 15 million lives. The book tells the story of ten cities on five continents that were ravaged by the epidemic in it's initial years: Hong Kong…
GMN 11391 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13590
2009 COOK, Noble David (1941 – ); COOK, Alexandra Parma
The plague files: Crisis management in sixteenth-century Seville.
GMN 10573 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12766
2009 GILMAN, Ernest B.
Plague writing in early modern England.
"During the seventeenth century, England was beset by three epidemics of the bubonic plague, each outbreak claiming between a quarter and a third of the population of London and other urban centers. Surveying a wide r…
GMN 13274 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15540
2010 COSMACINI, Giorgio (1931 – )
Storia della medicina e della sanità in Italia: Dalla peste nera ai giorni nostri.
GMN 8704 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10882
