Plague Legends, contents:
Prologue
Introduction
PART I – PRE 18th CENTURY HISTORY
I – Ancient Roots of 18th Century Medicine
- The Hippocratic Legacy
- The Galenic Legacy
- Ancient Medicine Shaped by Christianity
II – Decline of Galenism and the Rise of New Schools of Medicine
- The Revolt of Paracelsus
- Galen’s Anatomy Revisited by Vesalius
- Harvey’s Explorations of the Heart and Blood
- Paracelsians and the Iatrochemical School of Medicine
- Boyle’s Corpuscles and the Iatrophysical School of Medicine
- Return to the Hippocratic Bedside
III – On the Origin of Epidemics
- Neo-Platonic, Religious and other ‘Occult’ Influences
- Germs of Contagion – the Path Least Taken
- On the Epidemic Constitution of the Atmosphere
PART II – DISEASE PROFILES
IV – Disease Profiles
- Plague
- Smallpox
- Tuberculosis
- Diphtheria
- Scarlet Fever
- Malaria
- Influenza
- Typhus
- Yellow Fever
- Typhoid Epidemic
- Puerperal Fever
PART III – 18th AND 19th CENTURY HISTORY
V – 18th Century – A Kind of Status Quo Reigns
- Plague in Marseilles: 1720-22
- England Awaits the Plague
- Tuberculosis – The Ignored Ideas of Benjamin Marten
- Cotton Mather Battles Smallpox
- Diphtheria in the American Colonies: 1736-40
- Malaria in the Roman Campagna
- Typhus in England Influenza – The Views of Arbuthnot and Webster
- Yellow Fever in Philadelphia: 1793
- Rush’s Doctrine of the Unity of Fevers
- Webster’s Views on the Origin of Yellow Fever
VI – 19th Century – Recognition of Disease Specificity Opens the Door
to Specific Disease Causation
- Broussais Uses Pathological Anatomy to Show All Fevers to Be the Same
- Distinguishing Typhus from Typhoid Fever
- Bretonneau Establishes the Specificity of Diphtheria
- Yellow Fever in Europe- To Quarantine or Not?
- Cholera Reaches the New World
- Specific Modes of Transmission for Cholera and Yellow Fever Lost in
the ‘Sanitary Idea’ and Conflicting Causation Theories - Apparent Water, Soil and Air Sources of the Malarial Fever
- Epidemic Puerperal Fever – Hand or Air-Borne Disease?
- Pasteur Takes on Spontaneous Generation
- The Disease Causation Postulates of Koch
- Microbial Approach to Public Health
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Further Reading
Index