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Book Bubonic Plague in Early Modern Russia

Download or read book Bubonic Plague in Early Modern Russia written by John T. Alexander and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John T. Alexander's study dramatically highlights how the Russian people reacted to the Plague, and shows how the tools of modern epidemiology can illuminate the causes of the plague's tragic course through Russia. Bubonic Plauge in Early Modern Russia makes contributions to many aspects of Russian and European history: social, economic, medical, urban, demographic, and meterological. It is particularly enlightening in its discussion of eighteenth-century Russia's emergent medical profession and public health institutions and, overall, should interest scholars in its use of abundant new primary source material from Soviet, German, and British archives.

Book The Influence of Tropical Climates on European Constitutions

Download or read book The Influence of Tropical Climates on European Constitutions written by James Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Realms of Apollo

Download or read book The Realms of Apollo written by Raymond A. Anselment and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In The Realms of Apollo, literary scholar Raymond A. Anselment examines how seventeenth-century English authors confronted the physical and psychological realities of death." "Focusing on the dangers of childbirth and the terrors of bubonic plague, venereal disease, and smallpox, the book reveals in the discourse of literary and medical texts the meanings of sickness and death in both the daily life and culture of seventeenth-century England. These perspectives show each realm anew as the domain of Apollo, the deity widely celebrated in myth as the god of poetry and the god of medicine. Authors of both formal elegies and simple broadsides saw themselves as healers who tried to find in language the solace physicians could not find in medicine. Within the context of the suffering so unmistakable in the medical treatises and in the personal diaries, memoirs, and letters, the poets' struggles illuminate a new cultural consciousness of sickness and death."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Book 1666

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rebecca Rideal
  • Publisher : John Murray
  • Release : 2016-08-25
  • ISBN : 1473623553
  • Pages : 408 pages

Download or read book 1666 written by Rebecca Rideal and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1666 was a watershed year for England. The outbreak of the Great Plague, the eruption of the second Dutch War and the Great Fire of London all struck the country in rapid succession and with devastating repercussions. Shedding light on these dramatic events, historian Rebecca Rideal reveals an unprecedented period of terror and triumph. Based on original archival research and drawing on little-known sources, 1666: Plague, War and Hellfire takes readers on a thrilling journey through a crucial turning point in English history, as seen through the eyes of an extraordinary cast of historical characters. While the central events of this significant year were ones of devastation and defeat, 1666 also offers a glimpse of the incredible scientific and artistic progress being made at that time, from Isaac Newton's discovery of gravity to Robert Hooke's microscopic wonders. It was in this year that John Milton completed Paradise Lost, Frances Stewart posed for the now-iconic image of Britannia, and a young architect named Christopher Wren proposed a plan for a new London - a stone phoenix to rise from the charred ashes of the old city. With flair and style, 1666 shows a city and a country on the cusp of modernity, and a series of events that forever altered the course of history.

Book A History of Bubonic Plague in the British Isles

Download or read book A History of Bubonic Plague in the British Isles written by J. F. D. Shrewsbury and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-10 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the black rat introduced the bubonic plague into Britain, and the subsequent effects on social and economic life.

Book Loimologia  Or  An Historical Account of the Plague in London in 1665

Download or read book Loimologia Or An Historical Account of the Plague in London in 1665 written by Nathaniel Hodges and published by . This book was released on 1720 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Works of John Dryden  Volume XIII

Download or read book The Works of John Dryden Volume XIII written by John Dryden and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1985-01-24 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume XIII contains three of Dryden's Plays, along with accompanying scholarly appartus: All for Love, Oedipus, and Troilus and Cressida.

Book The Historical Sources of Defoe s Journal of the Plague Year

Download or read book The Historical Sources of Defoe s Journal of the Plague Year written by Watson Nicholson and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1966 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Loimologia

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  • Author : Nathaniel Hodges
  • Publisher : Gale Ecco, Print Editions
  • Release : 2018-04-24
  • ISBN : 9781385558843
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Loimologia written by Nathaniel Hodges and published by Gale Ecco, Print Editions. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Medical theory and practice of the 1700s developed rapidly, as is evidenced by the extensive collection, which includes descriptions of diseases, their conditions, and treatments. Books on science and technology, agriculture, military technology, natural philosophy, even cookbooks, are all contained here. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T061368 The second half is Quincy's Essay with its own titlepage, register and pagination. London: printed for E. Bell; and J. Osborn, 1721. v, [1],224;iv[i.e.vi],3-76p., table; 8°

Book The Cyclopaedia of Practical Medicine

Download or read book The Cyclopaedia of Practical Medicine written by and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Religion and the Decline of Magic

Download or read book Religion and the Decline of Magic written by Keith Thomas and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2003-01-30 with total page 853 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witchcraft, astrology, divination and every kind of popular magic flourished in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from the belief that a blessed amulet could prevent the assaults of the Devil to the use of the same charms to recover stolen goods. At the same time the Protestant Reformation attempted to take the magic out of religion, and scientists were developing new explanations of the universe. Keith Thomas's classic analysis of beliefs held on every level of English society begins with the collapse of the medieval Church and ends with the changing intellectual atmosphere around 1700, when science and rationalism began to challenge the older systems of belief.

Book Rotten Bodies

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kevin Siena
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2019-05-28
  • ISBN : 0300245424
  • Pages : 346 pages

Download or read book Rotten Bodies written by Kevin Siena and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing look at how the memory of the plague held the poor responsible for epidemic disease in eighteenth-century Britain Britain had no idea that it would not see another plague after the horrors of 1666, and for a century and a half the fear of epidemic disease gripped and shaped British society. Plague doctors had long asserted that the bodies of the poor were especially prone to generating and spreading contagious disease, and British doctors and laypeople alike took those warnings to heart, guiding medical ideas of class throughout the eighteenth century. Dense congregations of the poor—in workhouses, hospitals, slums, courtrooms, markets, and especially prisons—were rendered sites of immense danger in the public imagination, and the fear that small outbreaks might run wild became a profound cultural force. Extensively researched, with a wide body of evidence, this book offers a fascinating look at how class was constructed physiologically and provides a new connection between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries and the ravages of plague and cholera, respectively.

Book The Cyclopaedia of Practical Medicine

Download or read book The Cyclopaedia of Practical Medicine written by Sir John Forbes and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cyclop  dia of Practical Medicine  Comprising Treatises on the Nature and Treatment of Diseases  Materia Medica and Therapeutics  Medical Jurisprudence     Edited by John Forbes     Alexander Tweedie     John Conolly

Download or read book The Cyclop dia of Practical Medicine Comprising Treatises on the Nature and Treatment of Diseases Materia Medica and Therapeutics Medical Jurisprudence Edited by John Forbes Alexander Tweedie John Conolly written by and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Loimologia Or an Historical Account of the Plague in London in 1665  with Precautionary Directions Against the Like Contagion

Download or read book Loimologia Or an Historical Account of the Plague in London in 1665 with Precautionary Directions Against the Like Contagion written by Nathanael Hodges and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1720 edition. Excerpt: ... SECTION It Of the Cause of a Pestilence DEGREES and a Contagion. AS it is our Purpose here to enquire into the Origin of the late Plague, and find out both its manifest and hidden Causes j I cannot judge it necessary to go into the usual Length of Writers, in a particular Recital of all those remote Regards which they distinguish by Supernatural, Preternatural, and Natural; because by such Means this Treatise would be drawn out into an almost infinite needless Distinction. THAT the Truth therefore may at once be brought into an open Light, and the Pestilence appear in its genuine Affections, I think it proper to premise this one Thing, because the whole depends upon it, viz.. That the Pestilence is the most notorious of all popular Diseafes, and depends upon some Cause equally common, and in every respect adequate to its extensive Effects DEGREES which being granted, it naturally follows, that all particular Causes which may accidentally intervene, (the Recital of which would be very tedious) are resolvable into this one. AND AND for what concerns that Pestilence how under Enquiry, this we have as to its Origin, from the most irrefrigable Authority, that it "first came into this Island by Contagion* arid was imported to us froni Holland, in Packs of Merchandice DEGREES and if any one pleases to trace it further, he may be satisfied by common Fame, it came thither from Turkey in Bails of Cotton or Silkj which is a strange Preserver of the pestilential Steams. For that Part of the World is seldom free from such Infections, altho' it is sometimes more severe than others DEGREES according to the Disposition of Seasons and Temperature of Air in those Regions: But if any would yet more intimately be acquainted with its Origin, it concerns him to know