A History of Epidemic Pestilences

About this eBook

Author

Bascome, Edward, 1804-1856

Title

A History of Epidemic Pestilences From the Earliest Ages, 1495 Years Before the Birth of our Saviour to 1848: With Researches into Their Nature, Causes, and Prophylaxis

Original Publication

United Kingdom: John Churchill,1851.

Credits

Karin Spence, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

RA: Medicine: Public aspects of medicine

Subject

Epidemics -- History

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 67182

Release Date

January 16, 2022

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.A HISTORY OF EPIDEMIC PESTILENCES FROM THE EARLIEST AGES, 1495 Years before the Birth of our Saviour to 1848: WITH RESEARCHES INTO THEIR NATURE, CAUSES, AND PROPHYLAXIS.
2. 2.DEDICATION.
3. 3.PREFACE.
4. 4.CHAPTER I. FROM 1495 B.C. TO A.D. 540.
5. 5.CHAPTER II. FROM A.D. 543 TO 1330.
6. 6.CHAPTER III. FROM A.D. 1333 TO 1418.
7. 7.CHAPTER IV. FROM A.D. 1418 TO 1530.
8. 8.CHAPTER V. FROM A.D. 1530 TO 1613.
9. 9.CHAPTER VI. FROM A.D. 1616 TO 1704.
10. 10.CHAPTER VII. FROM A.D. 1705 TO 1795.
11. 11.CHAPTER VIII. FROM A.D. 1795 TO 1848.
12. 12.CHAPTER IX. NATURE AND CAUSES OF EPIDEMIC PESTILENCES.
13. 13.CHAPTER X. OF THE CAUSES OF EPIDEMIC PESTILENCES.
14. 14.CHAPTER XI. OF CONTAGION.
15. 15.CHAPTER XII. PROPHYLAXIS: OR THE MODE OF PREVENTING DISEASE.
16. 16.BIBLIOGRAPHY.
17. 17.GENERAL INDEX.
18. 18.CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX — FOOTNOTES:

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