Armies of Pestilence: The Impact of Disease on HistoryJames Clarke & Company Limited, 15. juni 2004 - 276 sider "We have lived in a world that had, until the arrival in 2020 of the coronavirus Covid-19, not suffered a serious pandemic for a century, and society had almost forgotten the enormous impact created by highly infectious diseases. Infectious diseases, however, played major roles in ending the Golden Age of Athens, wrecked Justinian's plans to restore the Roman Empire to its former glory, and killed untold millions in Latin America after the Spanish invasion. Armies of Pestilence explores the impact of these diseases on history. Despite their importance, historians have tended to minimise the role of infectious disease - partly because of a lack of scientific knowledge, and 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 who here shows himself also to be an able historian, corrects this view. The book surveys the principal epidemics around the world and across the centuries, in each case discussing the origins of the outbreaks, the symptoms, the mortality rate and the social and economic effect. Where particular diseases cannot be identified with certainty the best scholarly opinions are discussed. Bray pays special attention to the infamous Yersina pestis, the organism that caused the Black Death. Other diseases discussed include malaria, smallpox, typhus, cholera and influenza, and AIDS. One of the themes of the book is the relationship between disease and war, with the former often causing more deaths than the latter, as was the case with the great influenza pandemic of 1918-19, at the end of the First World War. The inability of governments to deal effectively with disease is also made clear." |
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... half - dead creatures could be seen staggering about in the streets or flocking together around the fountains in their desire for water . The temples in which they took up their quarters were full of the dead bodies of the people who ...
... half - dead creatures could be seen staggering about in the streets or flocking together around the fountains in their desire for water . The temples in which they took up their quarters were full of the dead bodies of the people who ...
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... half the population of Alexandria had perished . This plague also struck the invading Goths who had by then gathered together in such concentration of numbers as to fall victim to epidemic crowd diseases . This plague struck down ...
... half the population of Alexandria had perished . This plague also struck the invading Goths who had by then gathered together in such concentration of numbers as to fall victim to epidemic crowd diseases . This plague struck down ...
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... half of the population of the Empire perished in the pandemic . They feel that the case for believing the disease to have been smallpox is strong despite the equivocal and sketchy description of Galen . The question then arises whether ...
... half of the population of the Empire perished in the pandemic . They feel that the case for believing the disease to have been smallpox is strong despite the equivocal and sketchy description of Galen . The question then arises whether ...
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... first three years in England and claims that nothing like this occurred in the latter half of the second - century in the Roman Empire . He computes that a 1 % death toll would spell 500,000 deaths and Armies of Pestilence / 14.
... first three years in England and claims that nothing like this occurred in the latter half of the second - century in the Roman Empire . He computes that a 1 % death toll would spell 500,000 deaths and Armies of Pestilence / 14.
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... half of the second - century and the third - century in Rome at least . Salmon addresses to some degree this last point . Basing himself on new researches into the longevity of populations in classical times , he also disagrees with ...
... half of the second - century and the third - century in Rome at least . Salmon addresses to some degree this last point . Basing himself on new researches into the longevity of populations in classical times , he also disagrees with ...
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CHAPTER 6 The Black Death part 1 | 48 |
CHAPTER 7 The Black Death part 2 | 57 |
CHAPTER 8 The Black Death part 3 | 68 |
CHAPTER 16 Smallpox part 3 | 129 |
CHAPTER 17 Typhus part 1 | 135 |
CHAPTER 18 lYpbus part 2 | 144 |
CHAPTER 19 Cholera part 1 | 154 |
CHAPTER 20 Cholera part 2 | 167 |
CHAPTER 21 Cholera part 3 | 174 |
CHAPTER 22 Cholera part 4 | 187 |
CHAPTER 23 Influenza part 1 | 193 |
CHAPTER 9 Plague The Bombay Plague | 81 |
CHAPTER 10 Malaria part 1 | 89 |
CHAPTER 11 Malaria part 2 | 96 |
CHAPTER 12 Malaria part 3 | 101 |
CHAPTER 13 Yellow Fever | 107 |
CHAPTER 14 Smallpox part 1 | 114 |
CHAPTER 15 Smallpox part 2 | 123 |
CHAPTER 24 Influenza part 2 | 202 |
CHAPTER NOTES | 212 |
Bibliography | 223 |
Index | 237 |
Back Cover | 261 |
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