Epidemics Resulting from Wars

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Author

Prinzing, Friedrich, 1859-1938

Credits

Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)

Language

English

LoC Class

RA: Medicine: Public aspects of medicine

Subject

Armies -- Medical and sanitary affairs

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 59822

Release Date

June 27, 2019

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.EPIDEMICS RESULTING FROM WARS
2. 2.INTRODUCTORY NOTE BY THE DIRECTOR
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.INTRODUCTION
5. 5.CHAPTER I WAR PESTILENCES
6. 6.CHAPTER II THE TIME BEFORE THE THIRTY YEARS’ WAR
7. 7.CHAPTER III THE THIRTY YEARS’ WAR — I. The War in Bohemia and the Palatinate (1618–24) — II. The War in Saxony, Thuringia, Brandenburg, and Pomerania (1625–30) — III. The War Years 1630–40 — 1. North Germany until the Peace of Prague — 2. South Germany — 3. North Germany (1636–40) — IV. The War Years (1641–8) — V. War Pestilences in non-German States during the Thirty Years’ War — VI. A General Review of the Loss of Human Life in Germany during the Thirty Years’ War
8. 8.CHAPTER IV THE PERIOD BETWEEN THE PEACE OF WESTPHALIA AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION — ( a ) Central Europe — ( b ) Eastern Europe
9. 9.CHAPTER V THE PERIOD BETWEEN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND NAPOLEON’S RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN
10. 10.CHAPTER VI THE EPIDEMICS OF TYPHUS FEVER IN CENTRAL EUROPE FOLLOWING UPON THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN AND DURING THE WARS OF LIBERATION (1812–14) — 1. General Observations regarding Typhus Fever — 2. The Russian Campaign and Typhus Fever in Russia [117] — 3. The Appearance of Typhus Fever in North and Central Germany — 4. The Appearance of Typhus Fever in South Germany — 5. Typhus Fever on the Left Bank of the Rhine; France and Switzerland — 6. Typhus Fever in Austria in the Years 1813–14. [179] — 7. Survey of the Epidemic of Typhus Fever in the Years 1813–14
11. 11.CHAPTER VII FROM THE AGE OF NAPOLEON TO THE FRANCO-GERMAN WAR — 1. The Russo-Turkish War of 1828–9 — 2. The Crimean War (1854–6) — 3. The North American Civil War (1861–5) — 4. The Italian War of 1859 [225] — 5. The Danish War of 1864 — 6. The German War of 1866
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII THE FRANCO-GERMAN WAR OF 1870–1, AND THE EPIDEMIC OF SMALL-POX IN THE EUROPEAN STATES CAUSED BY IT — I. Size of the Armies — II. Dysentery, Typhoid Fever, and Typhus Fever — III. The Great Epidemic of Small-pox caused by the Franco-German War — 1. The Small-pox Mortality in France in the Years 1870–1 — 2. Small-pox among the French Prisoners — 3. Small-pox in the Immobile German Army — 4. The Epidemic of Small-pox in the Civil Population of Germany in 1871–2 — 5. The Epidemics of Small-pox that raged in the European, and in a few of the non-European States in connexion with the Franco-German War of 1870–1 — 6. The Age of the Small-pox Patients. The Connexion between the Epidemic and the War. The German Imperial Vaccination Law
13. 13.CHAPTER IX FROM THE FRANCO-GERMAN WAR TO THE PRESENT TIME — 1. The Russo-Turkish War of 1877–8 [304] — 2. The Boer War of 1899–1901 — 3. The War in South-west Africa (1904–7) [313] — 4. The Russo-Japanese War of 1904–5 — 5. The Occupation of Tripoli by the Italians (1911) — 6. The War between Turkey and the Balkan States (1912–13) [322]
14. 14.CHAPTER X EPIDEMICS IN BESIEGED STRONGHOLDS — 1. The Siege of Mantua (1796–7) [326] — 2. The Siege of Danzig (1813) — 3. The Siege of Torgau (1813) [336] — 4. The Siege of Mayence (1813–14) — 5. The Siege of Paris (1870–1) [344] — 6. The Siege of Port Arthur (1904)
15. 15.CONCLUSION
16. 16.INDEX
17. 17.GENERAL APPENDIX PUBLICATIONS OF THE DIVISION OF ECONOMICS AND HISTORY — Report of the First Commission THE ECONOMIC AND HISTORICAL CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF WAR — Report of the Second Commission ARMAMENTS IN TIME OF PEACE. MILITARY AND NAVAL ESTABLISHMENTS. THE THEORY, PRACTICE, AND HISTORY OF MODERN ARMAMENTS. — Report of the Third Commission THE UNIFYING INFLUENCES IN INTERNATIONAL LIFE
18. 18.TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

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