Download or read book A History of Epidemics in Britain From A D 664 to the extinction of plague written by Charles Creighton and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A History of Epidemics in Britain written by Charles Creighton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the history of epidemics in Britain from the first British epidemic to the end of the Great Plague.

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Download or read book A History of Epidemics in Britain Volume I of II from A D 664 to the Extinction of Plague written by Creighton Charles and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 1102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Download or read book From the Extinction of Plague to the Present Time written by Charles Creighton and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A History of Epidemics in Britain written by Charles Creighton and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A History of Epidemics in Britain Vol 1 2 written by Charles Creighton and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 1276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Epidemics in Britain in two volumes is the most significant work of Charles Creighton, British physician and medical author. The work is divided in two parts. First volume covers the history of epidemics from 664 A.D., the year of the first pestilence in Britain which was chosen as a starting-point, to the extinction of plague in 1665-66, which marks the end of a long era of epidemic sickness, including leprosy, poxes, various plagues, fevers and influenzas. The disappearance of plague marks the beginning of new era and of the second volume, which covers the period from 1666 to the end of 19th century. Dealing also with social and economic history, the author presents the broad image of the state of civilization which saw the emergence of typhus, cholera and many other kinds of fevers, influenzas and epidemics. The book is recognized as an important contribution to the study of medical history.

Download or read book A History of Epidemics in Britain from A D 664 to the Extinction of Plague and From the Extinction of Plague to the Present Time Complete written by Thomas Crofton Croker and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Middle Age of European history has no naturally fixed beginning or ending. The period of Antiquity may be taken as concluded by the fourth Christian century, or by the fifth or by the sixth; the Modern period may be made to commence in the fourteenth, or in the fifteenth or in the sixteenth. The historian Hallam includes a thousand years in the medieval period, from the invasion of France by Clovis to the invasion of Italy by Charles VIII. in 1494. We begin, he says, in darkness and calamity, and we break off as the morning breathes upon us and the twilight reddens into the lustre of day. To the epidemiologist the medieval period is rounded more definitely. At the one end comes the great plague in the reign of Justinian, and at the other end the Black Death. Those are the two greatest pestilences in recorded history; each has no parallel except in the other. They were in the march of events, and should not be fixed upon as doing more than their share in shaping the course of history. But no single thing stands out more clearly as the stroke of fate in bringing the ancient civilization to an end than the vast depopulation and solitude made by the plague which came with the corn-ships from Egypt to Byzantium in the year 543; and nothing marks so definitely the emergence of Europe from the middle period of stagnation as the other depopulation and social upheaval made by the plague which came in the overland track of Genoese and Venetian traders from China in the year 1347. While many other influences were in the air to determine the oncoming and the offgoing of the middle darkness, those two world-wide pestilences were singular in their respective effects: of the one, we may say that it turned the key of the medieval prison-house; and of the other, that it unlocked the door after eight hundred years. The Black Death and its after-effects will occupy a large part of this work, so that what has just been said of it will not stand as a bare assertion. But the plague in the reign of Justinian hardly touches British history, and must be left with a brief reference. Gibbon was not insensible of the part that it played in the great drama of his history. “There was,” he says, “a visible decrease of the human species, which has never been repaired in some of the fairest countries of the globe.” After vainly trying to construe the arithmetic of Procopius, who was a witness of the calamity at Byzantium, he agrees to strike off one or more ciphers, and adopts as an estimate “not wholly inadmissible,” a mortality of one hundred millions. The effects of that depopulation, in part due to war, are not followed in the history. So far as Gibbon’s method could go, the plague came for him into the same group of phenomena as comets and earthquakes; it was part of the stage scenery amidst which the drama of emperors, pontiffs, generals, eunuchs, Theodoras, and adventurers proceeded. Even of the comets and earthquakes, he remarks that they were subject to physical laws; and it was from no want of scientific spirit that he omitted to show how a plague of such magnitude had a place in the physical order, and not less in the moral order.

Download or read book A History of Epidemics in Britain written by Charles Creighton and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A History of Epidemics in Britain From the extinction of plague to the present time written by Charles Creighton and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A History of Epidemics in Britain Vol 1 written by Charles Creighton and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from the Preface--"The title and contents-table of this volume will show sufficiently its scope, and a glance at the references in the several chapters will show its sources. But it may be convenient to premise a few general remarks under each of those heads. The date 664 A.D. has been chosen as a starting-point, for the reason that it is the year of the first pestilence in Britain recorded on contemporary or almost contemporary authority, that of Beda's 'Ecclesiastical History.' The other limit of the volume, the extinction of plague in 1665-66, marks the end of a long era of epidemic sickness, which differed much in character from the era next following. At or near the Restoration we come, as it were, to the opening of a new seal or the outpouring of another vial. The history proceeds thenceforth on other lines and comes largely from sources of another kind; allowing for a little overlapping about the middle of the seventeenth century, it might be continued from 1666 almost without reference to what had gone before. The history is confined to Great Britain and Ireland, except in Chapter XI. which is occupied with the first Colonies and the early voyages, excepting also certain sections of other chapters, where the history has to trace the antecedents of some great epidemic sickness on a foreign soil."

Download or read book A History of Epidemics in Britain Volume 1 From AD 664 to the Extinction of Plague written by Charles Creighton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first volume of his history of epidemics in Britain, controversial physician Charles Creighton begins his examination of diseases in Britain from the first British epidemic in 664 AD to the end of the Great Plague in 1666. The work is broken down by time period and disease, ranging from Bede's record of the plague of 664-684 to 'the French pox', as well as outbreaks during sea voyages and in the early colonies. This work will be of value to medical historians and those with an interest in epidemiology.

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Download or read book A History of Epidemics in Britain Vol 2 written by Charles Creighton and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from the Preface--"This volume is the continuation of 'A History of Epidemics in Britain from A.D. 664 to the Extinction of Plague' (which was published three years ago), and is the completion of the history to the present time. The two volumes may be referred to conveniently as the first and second of a 'History of Epidemics in Britain.' In adhering to the plan of a systematic history instead of annals I have encountered more difficulties in the second volume than in the first. In the earlier period the predominant infection was Plague, which was not only of so uniform a type as to give no trouble, in the nosological sense, but was often so dramatic in its occasions and so enormous in its effects as to make a fitting historical theme. With its disappearance after 1666, the field is seen after a time to be occupied by a numerous brood of fevers, anginas and other infections, which are not always easy to identify according to modern definitions, and were recorded by writers of the time, for example Wintringham, in so dry or abstract a manner and with so little of human interest as to make but tedious reading in an almost obsolete phraseology. Descriptions of the fevers of those times, under the various names of synochus, synocha, nervous, putrid, miliary, remittent, comatose, and the like, have been introduced into the chapter on Continued Fevers so as to show their generic as well as their differential character; but a not less important purpose of the chapter has been to illustrate the condition of the working classes, the unwholesomeness of towns, London in particular, the state of the gaols and of the navy, the seasons of dearth, the[Pg vi] times of war-prices or of depressed trade, and all other vicissitudes of well-being, of which the amount of Typhus and Relapsing Fever has always been a curiously correct index. It is in this chapter that the epidemiology comes into closest contact with social and economic history. In the special chapter for Ireland the association is so close, and so uniform over a long period, that the history may seem at times to lose its distinctively medical character."

Download or read book A History of epidemics in Britain v 1 1891 written by Charles Creighton and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A History of Epidemics in Britain written by Charles Creighton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 897 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the history of epidemics in Britain from the time of Charles II to the volume's publication in 1894.