Epidemics and pandemics : their impacts on human history | WorldCat.org

Preface

Epidemic in Athens, 430-427 B.C.E

Malaria in ancient Rome

Plague of the Antonines

First plague pandemic, 541-747

Smallpox epidemic in Japan, 735-737

Leprosy in medieval Europe

Second plague pandemic, 1346-1844

"French disease" in sixteenth-century Europe

Epidemics in sixteenth-century America

Epidemics and the thirty years' war, 1618-1648

Plague in Italian cities, 1630s

Epidemics in China, 1640-1644

Plague in London, 1665

Smallpox in Iceland, 1707-1709

Plague in Marseilles, 1720-1722

Smallpox in Boston, 1721

Smallpox in eighteenth-century Europe

Plague in Moscow, 1771

Influenza pandemic, 1781-1782

Yellow fever in Hispaniola, 1793-1804

Yellow fever in Philadelphia, 1793

First cholera pandemic, 1817-1824

Consumption in the nineteenth century

Second cholera pandemic, 1827-1835

Third cholera pandemic, 1839-1856

"Fevers" and the great famine in Ireland, 1846-1850

Typhoid fever in cities, 1850-1920

Yellow fever in New Orleans, 1853

Fourth cholera pandemic, 1863-1875

Carrion's disease in Peru, 1870-1871

Smallpox in Europe, 1870-1875

Measles in Fiji, 1875

Fifth cholera pandemic, 1881-1896

Influenza pandemic, 1889-1890

Cholera epidemic in Hamburg, 1892

Third plague pandemic, 1894-?

Sixth cholera pandemic, 1899-1923

Sleeping sickness in east central Africa, 1900-1905

Typhoid Mary's "epidemics"

Cholera epidemic in Naples, 1910-1911

Poliomyelitis in the United States, 1916

Influenza pandemic, 1918-1919

Lung cancer in the United States, mid-twentieth century

Poliomyelitis in the United States, 1945-1955

Seventh cholera pandemic, 1961-present

Aids in the United States, 1980s

Contemporary aids pandemic

The mad cow crisis and transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, 1985-present

Contemporary malaria

Contemporary tuberculosis

Epilogue

Glossary