1914 MARTIN, Sir Charles James (1866 – 1955); BACOT, Arthur William (1866 – 1922)
Observations on the mechanism of the transmission of plague by fleas.
Bacot and Martin demonstrated the method by which the rat flea (primarily Xenopsylla cheopis) transmits the plague bacillus from rat to man.
GMN 5129.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6136
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
1925 LEWIS, Sinclair (1885 – 1951)
Arrowsmith.
"This novel has been inspirational for several generations of pre-medical and medical students. There is much agonizing along the way concerning career and life decisions. While detailing Arrowsmith's pursuit of the n…
GMN 10197 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12386
1926 WU, Lien-Teh (1879 – 1959)
A treatise on pneumonic plague.
Publication of the League of Nations, III. Health III, 13.
GMN 5130 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6137
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
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
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
2010 FRANDSEN, Karl-Erick
The last plague in the Baltic Region 1709-1713.
This work "offers a thorough description and analysis of the terrible plague epidemic that ravaged the Baltic region in the years between 1709 and 1713? at the same time when the region was razed by the Great Northern…
GMN 11393 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13592
2011 SILVA, Cristobal
Miraculous plagues: An epidemiology of early New England narrative.
GMN 10360 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12552
2012 RISSE, Guenter B. (1932 – )
Plague, fear, and politics in San Francisco's Chinatown.
GMN 7891 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10063
2012 BULMUS, Birsen
Plague, quarantines and geopolitics in the Ottoman empire.
An examination of Ottoman plague treatises and writers from the Black Death until 1923.
GMN 8492 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10669
2012 BYRNE, Joseph Patrick
Encylopedia of the black death.
GMN 10907 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13103
2015 VARLIK, Nükhet
Plague and empire in the early modern Mediterranean world: The Ottoman experience, 1347-1600.
GMN 8274 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10450
2015 TOMIC, Zlata Blažina (1926 – ); BLAŽINA, Vesna
Expelling the plague: The Health Office and the implementation of quarantine in Dubrovnik, 1377-1533.
GMN 13531 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15808
2016 CAMPBELL, Bruce M. S.
The great transition: Climate, disease and society in the late-medieval world.
GMN 9694 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11881
2016 LYNTERIS, Christos
Ethnographic plague: Configuring disease on the Chinese-Russian frontier.
"Challenging the concept that since the discovery of the plague bacillus in 1894 the study of the disease was dominated by bacteriology, Ethnographic Plague argues for the role of ethnography as a vital contributor to…
GMN 9895 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12083
