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Black Death

Here are entered works on the outbreak of the plague that swept parts of Asia and Europe in the fourteenth century.

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• Epidemics
• Medicine, Medieval
• Plague

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• Black Death -- Europe
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• The Black Death and The Dancing Mania, by J. F. C. Hecker, trans. by B. G. Babington (Gutenberg text)
• The black death and men of learning (Columbia University Press, 1931), by Anna Montgomery Campbell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The influence of the black death on the English monasteries ... (George Banta publishing company], 1916), by Peter George Mode (page images at HathiTrust)
• The black death, and The dancing mania of the middle ages. (The Humboldt publishing co., 1889), by J. F. C. Hecker and B. G. Babington (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great pestilence (A. D. 1348-9), now commonly known as the black death. (S. Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1893), by Francis Aidan Gasquet (page images at HathiTrust)
• De zwarte dood 1347-1352 (W.J. Thieme, 1924), by K. O. Meinsma (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The epidemics of the middle ages (Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell, 1837), by J. F. C. Hecker and M.D. Rare Book Collection of Rush University Medical Center at the University of Chicago Stanton A. Friedberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• The black death and the dancing mania (New York : Cassell & Co., [1888], 1888), by J. F. C. Hecker and B. G. Babington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der schwarze Tod im vierzehnten Jahrhundert : nach den Quellen für Aerzte und gebildete Nichtärzte (Herbig, 1832), by J. F. C. Hecker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The epidemics of the middle ages (Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper, 1835), by J. F. C. Hecker and B. G. Babington (page images at HathiTrust)
• The influence of the black death on the English monasteries (George Banta], 1916), by Peter George Mode (page images at HathiTrust)
• The black death of 1348 and 1349. (G. Bell, 1908), by Francis Aidan Gasquet (page images at HathiTrust)
• The black death; a chronicle of the plague (Harper, 1924), by Johannes Nohl (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Epidemics of the Middle Ages, by J. F. C. Hecker and John Caius, trans. by B. G. Babington (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Black Death in the Fourteenth Century, by J. F. C. Hecker, trans. by B. G. Babington (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Great Pestilence (A.D. 1348-9), Now Commonly Known as the Black Death, by Francis Aidan Gasquet (Gutenberg ebook)

• The black death and men of learning (Columbia University Press, 1931), by Anna Montgomery Campbell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The epidemics of the Middle Ages (Trübner & Co., 1859), by J. F. C. Hecker, John Caius, Robert H. Cooke, and B. G. Babington (page images at HathiTrust)

• Die Pest in Tulemont : Geschichte einer Katastrophe (E. Reiss, 1920), by Walther Harich (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World: Rethinking the Black Death (The Medieval Globe v1; 2014), ed. by Monica Helen Green (PDF at Western Michigan University)

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• The CDC Field Epidemiology Manual (2019), ed. by Sonja A. Rasmussen and Richard A. Goodman (HTML with commentary at cdc.gov)
• From the Remains: Reflections on Station Eleven (Knoxville: Newfound Press, c2018), ed. by Robin A. Bedenbaugh (PDF at Tennessee)
• The Genesis of Epidemics and the Natural History of Disease: An Introduction to the Science of Epidemiology Based Upon the Study of Epidemics of Malaria, Influenza, and Plague (New York: W. Wood and Co., 1928), by C. A. Gill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual epidemiological report : corrected statistics of notifiable diseases. (Geneva : Published by the Health Section, 1922-, 1922), by League of Nations. Secretariat. Health Section and Health Organisation (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Annual report of the Health Organization. ([Geneva], 1925), by League of Nations (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Notes on epidemics. For the use of the public. (J. B. Lippincott & co., 1866), by Francis Edmund Anstie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Epidemiology; or, The remote cause of epidemic diseases in the animal and in the vegetable creation. (J. and A. Churchill, 1873), by John Parkin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Influenza in dem Winter 1889/90, nebst einem Rückblick auf die früheren Iufluenzapandemieen [sic] (G. Thieme, 1891), by J. Ruhemann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichte der Volksseuchen, nach und mit den Berichten der Zeitgenossen, mit Berücksichtigung der Thierseuchen (Karger, 1896), by B. M. Lersch (page images at HathiTrust)
• A boke or counseill against the disease called the sweate (1552) (Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1937), by John Caius and Archibald Malloch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A review of the present systems of medicine and chirurgery of Europe and America : viewed in connexion with the most refined principles and demonstrations of anatomy, physiology, pathology, nosology, pharmacy, chymistry, materia medica, medical jurisprudence and philosophy which may, in any way or degree, contribute to advance the glory and perfection of the healing art (P. Donaldson, 1821), by Peter Donaldson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Extracted from the report of the Surgeon General of the Navy (G.P.O., 1880), by United States Navy Department Bureau of Medicine and Surgery and Philip S. Wales (page images at HathiTrust)
• Researches on primary pathology, and the origin and laws of epidemics ... (The author, 1858), by M. L. Knapp (page images at HathiTrust)
• The endemic diseases of the southern states (W. B. Saunders company, 1916), by William H. Deaderick and Loyd Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Investigations on epidemic infantile paralysis. Report from the State Medical Institute of Sweden to the xv International Congress on Hygiene and Demography, Washington 1912. (Obtained through Nordiska bokhandeln, 1912), by Stockholm. Statsmedicinska anstalten and Washington International Congress of Hygiene and Demography (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The hygiene of transmissible diseases; their causation, modes of dissemination, and methods of prevention. (W. B. Saunders, 1899), by A. C. Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cholera and its cures: an historical sketch. (W.S. Orr and Co., 1850), by J. Stevenson Bushnan (page images at HathiTrust)
• A plain and practical treatise on the epidemic cholera, as it prevailed in the city of New York, in the summer of 1832; including its nature, causes, treatment and prevention : designed for popular instruction ; to which is added, by way of appendix, a brief essay on the medical use of ardent spirits, being an attempt to show that alcohol is as unnecessary and mischievous in sickness as in health (Conner & Cooke, 1833), by David Meredith Reese and Seymour B. Durst (page images at HathiTrust)
• Health organisation. Public health services in the French colonies (Imp. G. Thone, 1926), by League of Nations and S. Abbatucci (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The genesis of epidemics and the natural history of disease: an introduction to the science of epidemiology based upon the study of epidemics of malaria, influenza, & plague. (Baillière, Tindall and Cox, 1928), by Clifford Allchin Gill (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Epidemiology in country practice (The Williams and Wilkins company, 1939), by William Pickles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Global epidemiology, a geography of disease and sanitation (Lippincott, 1944), by James Stevens Simmons and United States. Surgeon-General's Office. Preventive Medicine Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité des maladies et épidémies des armées. (G. Masson, 1875), by Alphonse Laveran (page images at HathiTrust)
• Von den miasmen und kontagien und von den miasmatisch-kontagiösen krankheiten (1840) (J.A. Barth, 1910), by Jacob Henle and Felix Marchand (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• On epidemic influences ; on the epidemiological aspects of yellow fever; on the epidemiological aspects of cholera (J. & A. Churchill, 1888), by Robert Lawson (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on the cause, diffusion, localization, prevention, and cure of the asiatic cholera and other epidemics (King & Baird, printers, 1866), by William Schmoele (page images at HathiTrust)
• The predicted plague; value of the prediction, planetary and atmospheric influences considered as cause of black death and other plagues; comets and plagues of two thousand years detailed. Queen Elizabeth in Richmond; Her Majesty's book of astrology and the diary of her astrologer, Dr. Dee. Richmond's Queen of the May; joyous youth at White Lodge; Shepheard's kalendar, 1500 (Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, and co., Ltd., 1900), by Junior Hippocrates (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Vorlesungen über allgemeine epidemiologie (G. Fischer, 1914), by Paul Theodor Müller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Prophylaxie et géographie médicale des principales maladies tributaires de l'hygiène (G. Masson, 1884), by Émile Léon Poincaré (page images at HathiTrust)
• Organisations d'hygiene. Les services d'hygiene publique dans les colonies françaises (Imp. Atar, 1926), by League of Nations (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Luft und ihre Beziehungen zu den epidemischen Krankheiten : hygienische Untersuchungen (Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, 1881), by Jozsef Fodor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide for investigating foodborne disease outbreaks and analyzing surveillance data (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, 1983), by Frank L. Bryan and Centers for Disease Control (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The black death and the dancing mania (New York : Cassell & Co., [1888], 1888), by J. F. C. Hecker and B. G. Babington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wie entstehen unsere masernepidemien? Warum hHoren sie auf? (D.F. Bonniers boktryckeri, 1885), by Ernst Bernhard Almquist (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Epidemien-Periode des fünften Jahrhunderts v. Christus u. die gleichzeitigen ungewöhnlichen Natur-Ereignisse. Mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der attischen Pest. ([n.p.], 1868), by V. Seibel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Epidemic and disaster aid to states. (Atlanta, 1948), by Communicable Disease Center (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Du fu shu lou yan fang (Jiang nan shu she, 1903), by Shimei Wang (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gedancken von den epidemischen Kranckheiten und dem grösseren Sterben des 1757ten Jahres : in einem Sendschreiben an die Herren Verfassser der göttingischen Anzeigen von gelehrten Sachen ... (Bey A. Haude und J.E. Spener ..., 1758), by Johann Peter Süssmilch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jubiläumsschrift zum 50. jährigen Gedenken der Begründung der lokalistischen Lehre Max von Pettenkofers. (J.F. Lehmann, 1906) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The prevention of epidemics and the construction and management of isolation hospitals. (P. Blakiston, 1895), by Roger McNeill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cholera asphyxia of New-York (Collins & Hannay, 1832), by Martyn Paine, Seymour B. Durst, and Peter Gerard Stuyvesant (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pestilence : a punishment for public sins : a sermon, preached in the Middle Dutch Church, Nov. 17, 1822 : after the cessation of the yellow fever, which prevailed in New-York in 1822. (H. Sage, 1822), by Paschal N. Strong (page images at HathiTrust)
• Extracts from an act to provide against infectious and pestilential diseases. For the use of pilots, and the commanders of all vessels they shall pilot into the Port of New-York. Passed April, 1823. (Child & Wells, Printers, 1826) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays on the autumnal and winter epidemics. (Transylvania Press, 1829), by John Esten Cooke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pestilential diseases, and the laws which govern their propagation. (C. Van Benthuysen, printer, 1858), by Elisha Harris and New York (State) Commissioners Relative to Removal of the Quarantine Station (page images at HathiTrust)
• Facts and enquiries respecting the source of epidemia, with an historical catalogue of the numerous visitations of plague, pestilence, and famine, from the earliest period of the world to the present day. To which are added, observations on quarantine and sanitary rules. (Keating and Brown; [etc., etc.], 1832), by T. Forster (page images at HathiTrust)
• K istorii epidemii drevni︠a︡go mira. (Moskva, 1894), by Aleksandr Nikolaevich Ustinov (page images at HathiTrust)
• The practical history of a new epidemical eruptive miliary fever, with an angina ulcusculosa, which prevailed in Boston New-England in the years 1735 and 1736 ... (Thomas Fleet, 1736), by William Douglass (page images at HathiTrust)
• Infectious disease-- a global health threat : report of the National Science and Technology Council, Committee on International Science, Engineering, and Technology, Working Group on Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases (Executive Office of the President of the United States, 1995), by National Science and Technology Council (U.S.). Working Group on Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases and United States Executive Office of the President (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on the medical topography and epidemics of the state of New York : Submitted to the American Medical Association at its annual meeting at New Haven in June, 1860. (Collins, printer, 1860), by Joseph Mather Smith, James H. Armsby, Alden March, and American Medical Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• London vestries and their sanitary work : are they willing and able to do it? : and may they be trusted in the face of a severe epidemic? : being a speech delivered August 8th, 1865, at a meeting of the vestry of St. George-the-Martyr, Southwark (J. Churchill and Sons, 1865), by William Rendle (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of epidemic cholera : as it appeared atthe Baltimore City and County Alms-House, : in the summer of 1849 : with some remarks on the medical topography and diseases of this region (Printed by James Lucas, 1851), by Thomas Hepburn Buckler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations sur l'influence des comètes sur les phénomènes de l'atmosphère : adressées à M. Arago (J.J. Beaufort, 1836), by T. Forster and F. Arago (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mittheilungen über die morgenländische Brechruhr. (Hoffmann, 1831), by Victor Adolph Riecke and M.D. Rare Book Collection of Rush University Medical Center at the University of Chicago Stanton A. Friedberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité des maladies épidémiques : origine, évolution, prophylaxie (J.-B. Baillière, 1879), by Léon Colin (page images at HathiTrust)
• De influentia epidemica (Typis Schreiberi, 1834), by Heinrich Haeser (page images at HathiTrust)
• Haerbin Fujiadian fang yi cuo ying (Printed at the Commercial Press, 1911), by Chinese Plague Commission, Liande Wu, and China) International Plague Conference (1911 : Mukden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tratado de las epidemias malignas y enfermedades particulares de los exercitos : con advertencias á sus capitanes generales, ingenieros, medicos, y cirujanos .. (Juan Antonio Lozano, 1776), by Francisco Bruno Fernández (page images at HathiTrust)
• Epidemics : how to meet them (Pacific Press Pub. Association, 1919), by Louis A. Hansen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zusammenfassende Übersicht über die systematische Typhusbekämpfung im Südwesten des Reiches (Julius Springer, 1919), by Wilhelm Geiger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report of the Board of Health on a third outbreak of plague at Sydney, 1903 (William Applegate Gullick, Government Printer, 1904), by J. Ashburton Thompson and New South Wales. Department of Health (page images at HathiTrust)
• A comparative history of the increase and decrease of mankind in England, and several countries abroad ... To which is added, a syllabus of the general states of health, air, seasons, and food for the last three hundred years; and also a meteorological discourse. (W. Nicoll [etc.], 1767), by Thomas Short (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reports to the St. Louis Medical Society on yellow fever; consisting of the report of the committee appointed to inquire into the relations of the epidemic of 1878 to the city of St. Louis, and a report on the meteorological conditions and etiology of yellow fever, and of certain other diseases associated with a high temperature, and on the treatment of yellow fever (Rumbold, 1879), by St. Louis Medical Society and W. Hutson Ford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Epidemic ophthalmia : its symptoms, diagnosis and management ; with papers upon allied subjects (Young J. Pentland, 1896), by Sydney Stephenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les épidémies et les maladies contagieuses au XXe siècle; conférences données à l'Institut des hautes études de l'Université nouvelle de Bruxelles. (Société coopérative Volksdrukkerij, 1905), by Jules Félix (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La politique sanitaire internationale ... (Paris, 1906), by Z. I. Loutfi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La lutte internationale contre les épidémies de la guerre; une question du droit administratif international et du droit de la neutralité. (Paris, 1897), by Emanuel Ullmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Epidemiologic studies of poliomyelitis in New York City and the northeastern United States during the year 1916 (G.P.O., 1918), by C. H. Lavinder, Wade Hampton Frost, Allen W. Freeman, and United States Public Health Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pathologisch-anatomische Untersuchungen über akute Poliomyelitis und verwandte Krankheiten von den Epidemien in Norwegen 1903-1906 (J. Dybwad, 1907), by Francis Gottfred Harbitz and Olaf Scheel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Epidemic diseases in Englnad. (London : Bedford Press, 1906), by William Heaton Hamer and Bridgforth Family Collection (Mississippi State University. Libraries) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Condensed history of the great yellow fever epidemic of 1878; personal sketches and incidents, full particulars of the Father Mathew Camp, list of cities and towns visited by the scourge, and names of the victims of the fever in Memphis. (Toof, 1879), by Peter Murtough (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on the air and epidemic diseases : from the year MDCCXXVIII. to MDCCXXXVII. inclusive (Printed for J. Hinton and Henry Whitfeld, 1759), by John Huxham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quistioni di medicina pratico-teorica : toccanti l'origine la natura e la terapia de' morbi contagioisi ed epidemici e particolarmente delle febbri tifoidee -- perniciose -- gastriche o itterodi -- pestilenziale ec., del vajuolo del morbillo della sifilide, della pellagra dello skirlievo, e gli errori perniciosissimi de' medici in questo argomento (Milano : Pirola, 1822-27., 1822), by Antonio Bodei (page images at HathiTrust)
• An inquiry into the contagious properties of different epidemic diseases, with some attempts towards an improvement in the bills of mortality. (Johnson, 1809), by Joseph Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cholera epidemics in East Africa : an account of the several diffusions of the disease in that country from 1821 till 1872, with an outline of the geography, ethnology and trade connections of the regions through which the epidemics passed (Kessinger Pub., 2009), by James Christie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Causes of geographical variations in the influenza epidemic of 1918 in the cities of the United States. : Report of the Committee on the atmosphere and man. (Published by the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences, 1923), by National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on the Atmosphere and Man, Ellsworth Huntington, National Research Council (U.S.). Division of Medical Sciences, and National Research Council (U.S.). Division of Biology and Agriculture (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sewage-polluted oysters as a cause of typhoid and other gastro-intestinal disturbances. A study of an epidemic and of certain individual cases (G.P.O., 1912), by George Whitfield Stiles, United States Department of Agriculture, and United States. Bureau of Chemistry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Typhoid fever, its cause, prevention and suppression (Illinois State Board of Health, 1912), by Illinois State Board of Health (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on the medical topography and epidemics of North Carolina (Collins, printer, 1860), by James H. Dickson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Foodbourne diseases of contemporary importance; a collection of papers (DHEW, Center for Disease Control, 1974), by Frank L. Bryan and Center for Disease Control (page images at HathiTrust)
• Epidemiology : or, the remote cause of epidemic diseases in the animal and in the vegetable creation (J. and A. Churchill, 1873), by John Parkin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Épidémiques d'Hippocrate, traduites du grec : avec des réflexions sur les constitutions épidémiques : suivies des quarantedeux histoires rapportées par cet ancien médecin, & du Commentaire de Galien sur ces histoires : on y a joint un Mémoire sur la mortalité des moutons en Boulonnois dans les années 1761 & 1762 & une Lettre sur la mortalité des chiens dans l'année 1763, dans laquelle sont développées les vues d'Hippocrate sur les constitutions (A Paris : Chez la veuve d'Houry, imprimeur-libraire, 1798., 1798), by Hippocrates, Galen, J. T. Desmars, and Jeanne d' Houry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes sur la relation historique de la peste de Marseille en 1720 : imprimée a Cologne, chez Pierre Matteau Imprimeur Libraire 1721. (chez Fontana Imprimeur & Marchand Libraire, 1722) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discours sur ce qui s'est passé de plus considérable à Marseille pendant la contagion. (A Marseille : chez Jean-Antoine Mallard, imprimeur du roi & de la ville, [1721?], 1721) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Critique du discours sur ce qui s'est passé de plus considérable à Marseille pendant la contagion, avec la lettre & les remarques sur le même discours de M*** Negociant de Marseille, à l'Auteur de la critique. (A Marseille : chez Jean-Antoine Mallard, imprimeur du roi & de la ville, 1721., 1721) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Apologie du discours sur ce qui s'est passé de plus considérable à Marseille pendant la contagion en l'année M.DCC.XX. (A Marseille : chez Jean-Antoine Mallard, imprimeur du roi & de la ville, 1721., 1721) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettre a Mr. le Marquis de **** au sujet du Chevalier Rose. ([France] : [publisher not identified] [approximately 1722?], 1722) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reponse d'un Seigneur de la grande Tartarie a l'auteur de la vie du Chevalier Rose. ([France] : [publisher not identified] 1722., 1722) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cholera epidemic of 1873 in the United States. (G.P.O., 1875), by United States. Department of the Army. Office of the Surgeon General, John M. Woodworth, John C. Peters, Ely McClellan, John S. Billings, Joseph K. Barnes, United States Public Health Service, United States. President (1869-1877 : Grant), and United States. Marine Hospital Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• The common nature of epidemics, and their relation to climate and civilization ; Also, Remarks on contagion and quarantine : from writings and official reports (Lippincott, 1866), by Southwood Smith and Thomas Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Common Nature of Epidemics, and their relation to climate and civilization, by Southwood Smith, ed. by Thomas Baker (Gutenberg ebook)
• Epidemics Examined and Explained: or, Living Germs Proved by Analogy to be a Source of Disease, by John Grove (Gutenberg ebook)
• A semi-annual oration, on the origin of pestilential diseases, delivered before the Academy of Medicine of Philadelphia, on the 17th day of December, 1798. / By Charles Caldwell, A.M. M.D. senior vice-president of the Academy. (Philadelphia: : Printed by Thomas and Samuel F. Bradford, no. 8, South Front Street., 1799), by Charles Caldwell and Academy of Medicine of Philadelphia (HTML at Evans TCP)

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