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A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 1 (of 2)

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A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 1 (of 2)

Charles Creighton

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Ergotism turned bread into fire and whole villages danced with St Anthony's Fire. Charles Creighton's first volume tracks famine-pestilences, medieval leprosy and the sweating sickness across early Britain in exhaustive, unflinching detail. This is the classic scholarly record of British epidemics, prized by historians of medicine. Open the definitive account of the plagues that stalked the isles.

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114 chapters

  1. 1A HISTORY OF EPIDEMICS IN BRITAIN.
  2. 2PREFACE.
  3. 3CONTENTS.
  4. 4ERRATA.
  5. 5CHAPTER I.
  6. 6Pestilence in England and Ireland in the Seventh Century.
  7. 7Early Epidemics not connected with Famine.
  8. 8Medieval Famine-pestilences.
  9. 9Epidemics of St Anthony’s Fire, or Ergotism.
  10. 10Generalities on Medieval Famines in England.
  11. 11CHAPTER II.
  12. 12Leprosy in Medieval Medical Treatises.
  13. 13The Biblical Associations of Leprosy.
  14. 14The Medieval Religious Sentiment towards Lepers.
  15. 15The English Leper-houses.
  16. 16Leper-houses in Scotland and Ireland.
  17. 17The Prejudice against Lepers.
  18. 18Laws against Lepers.

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