{"id":57,"date":"2010-03-21T22:07:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T21:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/socrates.litsios.org\/site\/?page_id=57"},"modified":"2024-05-27T14:54:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T12:54:50","slug":"plague-legends-contents","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/socrates.litsios.org\/site\/book-info\/plague-legends-contents\/","title":{"rendered":"Plague Legends, contents."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h4>Plague Legends, contents:<\/h4>\n<p>Prologue<\/p>\n<p>Introduction<\/p>\n<p><strong>PART I &#8211; PRE 18th CENTURY HISTORY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I &#8211; Ancient Roots of 18th Century Medicine<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Hippocratic Legacy<\/li>\n<li>The Galenic Legacy<\/li>\n<li>Ancient Medicine Shaped by Christianity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>II &#8211; Decline of Galenism and the Rise of New Schools of Medicine<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Revolt of Paracelsus<\/li>\n<li>Galen&#8217;s Anatomy Revisited by Vesalius<\/li>\n<li>Harvey&#8217;s Explorations of the Heart and Blood<\/li>\n<li>Paracelsians and the Iatrochemical School of Medicine<\/li>\n<li>Boyle&#8217;s Corpuscles and the Iatrophysical School of Medicine<\/li>\n<li>Return to the Hippocratic Bedside<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>III &#8211; On the Origin of Epidemics<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Neo-Platonic, Religious and other &#8216;Occult&#8217; Influences<\/li>\n<li>Germs of Contagion &#8211; the Path Least Taken<\/li>\n<li>On the Epidemic Constitution of the Atmosphere<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>PART II &#8211; DISEASE PROFILES <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>IV &#8211; Disease Profiles<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Plague<\/li>\n<li>Smallpox<\/li>\n<li>Tuberculosis<\/li>\n<li>Diphtheria<\/li>\n<li>Scarlet Fever<\/li>\n<li>Malaria<\/li>\n<li>Influenza<\/li>\n<li>Typhus<\/li>\n<li>Yellow Fever<\/li>\n<li>Typhoid Epidemic<\/li>\n<li>Puerperal Fever<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>PART III &#8211; 18th AND 19th CENTURY HISTORY <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>V &#8211; 18th Century &#8211; A Kind of Status Quo Reigns<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Plague in Marseilles: 1720-22<\/li>\n<li>England Awaits the Plague<\/li>\n<li>Tuberculosis &#8211; The Ignored Ideas of Benjamin Marten<\/li>\n<li>Cotton Mather Battles Smallpox<\/li>\n<li>Diphtheria in the American Colonies: 1736-40<\/li>\n<li>Malaria in the Roman Campagna<\/li>\n<li>Typhus in England Influenza &#8211; The Views of Arbuthnot and Webster<\/li>\n<li>Yellow Fever in Philadelphia: 1793<\/li>\n<li> Rush&#8217;s Doctrine of the Unity of Fevers<\/li>\n<li>Webster&#8217;s Views on the Origin of Yellow Fever<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>VI &#8211; 19th Century &#8211; Recognition of Disease Specificity Opens the Door<br \/>\nto Specific Disease Causation<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Broussais Uses Pathological Anatomy to Show All Fevers to Be the Same<\/li>\n<li>Distinguishing Typhus from Typhoid Fever<\/li>\n<li>Bretonneau Establishes the Specificity of Diphtheria<\/li>\n<li>Yellow Fever in Europe- To Quarantine or Not?<\/li>\n<li>Cholera Reaches the New World<\/li>\n<li>Specific Modes of Transmission for Cholera and Yellow Fever Lost in<br \/>\nthe &#8216;Sanitary Idea&#8217; and Conflicting Causation Theories<\/li>\n<li>Apparent Water, Soil and Air Sources of the Malarial Fever<\/li>\n<li>Epidemic Puerperal Fever &#8211; Hand or Air-Borne Disease?<\/li>\n<li>Pasteur Takes on Spontaneous Generation<\/li>\n<li>The Disease Causation Postulates of Koch<\/li>\n<li>Microbial Approach to Public Health<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Epilogue<\/p>\n<p>Acknowledgements<\/p>\n<p>Further Reading<\/p>\n<p>Index<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plague Legends, contents: Prologue Introduction PART I &#8211; PRE 18th CENTURY HISTORY I &#8211; Ancient Roots of 18th Century Medicine The Hippocratic Legacy The Galenic Legacy Ancient Medicine Shaped by Christianity II &#8211; Decline of Galenism and the Rise of New Schools of Medicine The Revolt of Paracelsus Galen&#8217;s Anatomy Revisited by Vesalius Harvey&#8217;s Explorations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":67,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-57","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/socrates.litsios.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/socrates.litsios.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/socrates.litsios.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socrates.litsios.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socrates.litsios.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/socrates.litsios.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/socrates.litsios.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57\/revisions\/69"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socrates.litsios.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/socrates.litsios.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}