A History of Epidemics in Britain: From A.D. 664 to the Extinction of Plague

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Author

Creighton, Charles, 1847-1927

Title

A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 1 (of 2) From A.D. 664 to the Extinction of Plague

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Produced by 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 -- Great Britain -- History

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Text

eBook-No.

42686

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42686

Release Date

May 11, 2013

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.A HISTORY OF EPIDEMICS IN BRITAIN.
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.ERRATA.
5. 5.CHAPTER I. — Pestilence in England and Ireland in the Seventh Century. — Early Epidemics not connected with Famine. — Medieval Famine-pestilences. — Epidemics of St Anthony’s Fire, or Ergotism. — Generalities on Medieval Famines in England.
6. 6.CHAPTER II. — Leprosy in Medieval Medical Treatises. — The Biblical Associations of Leprosy. — The Medieval Religious Sentiment towards Lepers. — The English Leper-houses. — Leper-houses in Scotland and Ireland. — The Prejudice against Lepers. — Laws against Lepers. — Causes of Medieval Leprosy.
7. 7.CHAPTER III. — Symptoms and Type of the Black Death. — Estimates of the Mortality. — The Antecedents of the Black Death. — The Theory of the Plague-Virus. — The Theory tested by Modern Instances. — Relation of Typhus to Bubo-plague.
8. 8.CHAPTER IV. — Direct effects of the Black Death. — More lasting effects on Farming, Industries, and Population. — The Epidemics following the Black Death. — Medical Evidence of the Continuance of Plague. — The Fourteenth Century Chronology continued. — The Public Health in the Fifteenth Century. — Chronology of Plagues in the Fifteenth Century. — Plague and other pestilences in Scotland and Ireland, 1349-1475.
9. 9.CHAPTER V. — The Second Sweat in 1508. — The Third Sweat in 1517. — The Fourth Sweat in 1528. — The English Sweat on the Continent in 1529 [503] . — The Fifth Sweat in 1551. — Antecedents of the English Sweat. — A form of Sweat afterwards endemic in Normandy. — Theory of the English Sweat. — The Habitat of the Virus. — The Extinction of the Sweat in England.
10. 10.CHAPTER VI. — The London Plague of 1563. — Preventive Practice in Plague-time under the Tudors. — Sanitation in Plantagenet and Tudor times. — The Disposal of the Dead. — Chronology of Plague, 1564-1592. — The London Plague of 1592-1593. — Plague in Scotland, 1495-1603. — Plague in Ireland in the Tudor period.
11. 11.CHAPTER VII. — Cambridge Black Assizes. — Oxford Black Assizes. — Exeter Black Assizes. — Poverty and Vagrancy in Tudor England. — Influenza.
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII. — Earliest Notices of the French Pox in Scotland and England. — English Writings on the Pox in the 16th Century. — Origin of the Epidemic of 1494.
13. 13.CHAPTER IX. — Smallpox in the Arabic Annals. — Theory of the nature of Smallpox. — European Smallpox in the Middle Ages. — Measles in Medieval Writings. — History of the name “Pocks” in English. — Smallpox in England in the 16th Century. — Smallpox in the 17th Century. — Smallpox in Continental Writings of the 16th century.
14. 14.CHAPTER X. — The Growth of London in the Tudor and Stuart Periods [919] . — The London Plague of 1603. — The Plague of 1603 in the country near London. — Annual Plague in London after 1603. — Plague in the Provinces in 1603 and following years. — Ireland. — Plague in Scotland, 1603-24. — Malignant Fever preceding the Plague of 1625. — The London Plague of 1625. — The Plague of 1625 near London. — Plague in the Provinces in 1625 and following years. — The London Plague of 1636. — Fever in London. — Review of Fever in England to 1643. — War-typhus in Oxfordshire and Berkshire. — War-typhus at Tiverton in 1644. — Plague in the Provinces during the Civil Wars. — Plague in Scotland during the Civil Wars. — Plague in Chester &c. and in Ireland, 1647-1650. — Fever in England, 1651-2. — Fever and Influenza, 1657-9.
15. 15.CHAPTER XI. — (Sea Scurvy, Flux, Fever, and Yellow Fever.) — The first accounts of Sea Scurvy. — Remarkable Epidemic in Drake’s Fleet 1585-6. — Sicknesses of Voyages, continued: Management of Scurvy. — Scurvy in the East India Company’s Ships: Professional Treatment. — Sickness in the Colonizing of Virginia and New England. — West Indian Colonization: Yellow Fever and the Slave Trade. — The Great Mortality in the occupying of Jamaica.
16. 16.CHAPTER XII. — Literature of the Great Plague. — Antecedents, Beginnings and Progress of the Plague of 1665. — Mortality and Incidents of the Great Plague. — Plague near London in 1665. — Plague in the Provinces in 1665-6. — The Epidemic of Plague at Eyam, 1665-6. — The Last of Plague in England.
17. 17.INDEX.

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