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Plague Legends, contents.

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