Download or read book Pestilence Reigns written by Ben Black and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The mortality rate is one hundred per cent. No one survives..."In the near future, with the world falling apart, Bill Reddings is forced to do whatever it takes to survive as his life is ripped apart and society crumbles around him.A new strain of a deadly plague appears in London, spreading like wildfire and infecting the entire nation. Martial law is declared, as quarantine and disposal of contaminated corpses become top priority. As the disease continues to expand exponentially, bodies begin to mount up. Rumours of a vaccination being withheld circulate amongst the population, riots ensue and towns and cities are plunged into chaos.As quarantine locks down the entire United Kingdom, the watchful eyes of the United Government's Marine Corps maintain an anxious vigil on the island. The few left alive face slaughter at the hands of fellow survivors or an agonising death by infection: either way, the island will be their tomb. In a world that has fallen to a vile and deadly scourge, only a handful stand strong, pushing back against overwhelming odds, struggling to survive the pestilence that has descended on where they once called home.Pestilence Reigns is the self-contained first book in a series chronicling the fall and rise of a deadly plague destined to forever change the lives of the people it has snared with its tainted fingers.
Download or read book The Millennial Reign of Christ written by William Stonier and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters and Papers Foreign and Domestic of the Reign of Henry VIII written by Great Britain. Public Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Doctoring the Black Death written by John Aberth and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Black Death of the late Middle Ages is often described as the greatest natural disaster in the history of humankind. More than fifty million people, half of Europe’s population, died during the first outbreak alone from 1347 to 1353. Plague then returned fifteen more times through to the end of the medieval period in 1500, posing the greatest challenge to physicians ever recorded in the history of the medical profession. This engrossing book provides the only comprehensive history of the medical response to the Black Death over time. Leading historian John Aberth has translated many unknown plague treatises from nine different languages that vividly illustrate the human dimensions of the horrific scourge. He includes doctors’ remarkable personal anecdotes, showing how their battles to combat the disease (which often afflicted them personally) and the scale and scope of the plague led many to question ancient authorities. Dispelling many myths and misconceptions about medicine during the Middle Ages, Aberth shows that plague doctors formulated a unique and far-reaching response as they began to treat plague as a poison, a conception that had far-reaching implications, both in terms of medical treatment and social and cultural responses to the disease in society as a whole.
Download or read book Letters and Papers Foreign and Domestic of the Reign of Henry VIII written by Great Britain. Public Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 920 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 1891 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Armies of Pestilence written by R. S. Bray and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global outbreak of Covid-19 appears to be unprecedented in a world which has not suffered a serious pandemic for a century, while society had almost forgotten the enormous impact of highly infectious diseases throughout history. Pestilence, however, has played a major role in ending the Golden Age of Athens, wrecking Justinian's plans to restore the Roman Empire to its former glory, and killing untold millions in Latin America after the Spanish invasion. Despite its importance, historians have tended to minimise the role of infectious disease, partly because of a lack of scientific knowledge. This has resulted in a distorted view both of the past and of the danger of disease to modern society. In Armies of Pestilence, R.S. Bray, a distinguished biologist and an able historian, corrects this view with an exploration of the influence of disease on history. The book surveys the principal epidemics around the world and across the centuries, including scholarly discussion around those which cannot be certainly identified. In each case, Bray examines the origins of the outbreaks, as well as the symptoms, the mortality rate and the social and economic turmoil left in their wake. Bray pays special attention to the infamous organism that caused the Black Death, Yersina pestis, as well as other grimly familiar bogey-men of pestilential history including malaria, smallpox, typhus, cholera and influenza, and AIDS. Government responses to outbreaks are assessed, and the inability of governments to deal effectively with disease is a recurring theme. The relationship between disease and war, with the former often responsible for more deaths than the latter, is also considered in detail, as was the case during the last great influenza pandemic of 1918-19, at the end of the First World War
Download or read book Medical Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Daily Life during the Black Death written by Joseph P. Byrne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-08-30 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daily life during the Black Death was anything but normal. When plague hit a community, every aspect of life was turned upside down, from relations within families to its social, political, and economic stucture. Theaters emptied, graveyards filled, and the streets were ruled by the terrible corpse-bearers whose wagons of death rumbled day and night. Daily life during the Black Death was anything but normal. During the three and a half centuries that constituted the Second Pandemic of Bubonic Plague, from 1348 to 1722, Europeans were regularly assaulted by epidemics that mowed them down like a reaper's scythe. When plague hit a community, every aspect of life was turned upside down, from relations within families to its social, political and economic structure. Theaters emptied, graveyards filled, and the streets were ruled by terrible corpse-bearers whose wagons of death rumbled night and day. Plague time elicited the most heroic and inhuman behavior imaginable. And yet Western Civilization survived to undergo the Renaissance, Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and early Enlightenment. In Daily Life during the Black Death Joseph Byrne opens with an outline of the course of the Second Pandemic, the causes and nature of bubonic plague, and the recent revisionist view of what the Black Death really was. He presents the phenomenon of plague thematically by focusing on the places people lived and worked and confronted their horrors: the home, the church and cemetary, the village, the pest houses, the streets and roads. He leads readers to the medical school classroom where the false theories of plague were taught, through the careers of doctors who futiley treated victims, to the council chambers of city hall where civic leaders agonized over ways to prevent and then treat the pestilence. He discusses the medicines, prayers, literature, special clothing, art, burial practices, and crime that plague spawned. Byrne draws vivid examples from across both Europe and the period, and presents the words of witnesses and victims themselves wherever possible. He ends with a close discussion of the plague at Marseille (1720-22), the last major plague in northern Europe, and the research breakthroughs at the end of the nineteenth century that finally defeated bubonic plague.
Download or read book Representing the Plague in Early Modern England written by Rebecca Totaro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection offers readers a timely encounter with the historical experience of people adapting to a pandemic emergency and the corresponding narrative representation of that crisis, as early modern writers transformed the plague into literature. The essays examine the impact of the plague on health, politics, and religion as well as on the plays, prose fiction, and plague bills that stand as witnesses to the experience of a society devastated by contagious disease. Readers will find physicians and moralists wrestling with the mysteries of the disease; erotic escapades staged in plague-time plays; the poignant prose works of William Bullein and Thomas Dekker; the bodies of monarchs who sought to protect themselves from plague; the chameleon-like nature of the plague as literal disease and as metaphor; and future strains of plague, literary and otherwise, which we may face in the globally-minded, technology-dependent, and ecologically-awakened twenty-first century. The bubonic plague compelled change in all aspects of lived experience in Early Modern England, but at the same time, it opened space for writers to explore new ideas and new literary forms—not all of them somber or horrifying and some of them downright hilarious. By representing the plague for their audiences, these writers made an epidemic calamity intelligible: for them, the dreaded disease could signify despair but also hope, bewilderment but also a divine plan, quarantine but also liberty, death but also new life.
Download or read book Chronology of the Reigns of George III IV With a general chronology from the earliest records written by William Belsham and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Epidemiology or The remote cause of epidemic diseases in the animal and in the vegetable creation written by John Parkin and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chronology of the reigns of George III and IV With a general chronology of the most important events and discoveries from the earliest records to the year 1760 written by James FORDYCE (of Pimlico.) and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Genesis of Lancaster Or the Three Reigns of Edward II Edward III and Richard II 1307 1399 written by Sir James Henry Ramsay and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mishnayot written by D. A. De Sola and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-27 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.
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