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The following English work of this period may also be mentioned:-
(29) Noah Webster, History of Epidemic Diseases, London, 1800,-
a work which contains no medical information, but connects plague epidemics
with famines and other disasters.
The English plague literature of this period is scanty: doubtless because
plague was fast disappearing from Great Britain and the neighbouring countries.
19th Century;
The plague literature of the present century is voluminous: English, Ger-
man, and French savants have all endeavoured to collect and classify the old records
of this mysterious discase. Five writers, however, stand out as pre-eminent
authorities previous to 1890. They are: English-Radcliffe and Payne; Ger-
man--Hecker and Haeser; French-Tholozan. Their works may be roughly
summarised as follows:-
ENGLISH.
(30) J. N. Radcliffe, Report of the Medical Officer of the Privy Council, 1875.
(31) J. N. Radcliffe, Reports of the Local Government Board, 1875, 1876, 1877, 1879-80.
(32) J. N. Radcliffe, Papers on Levantine Plague, 1879.
[These papers were presented to Parliament.]
(33) Colville and Payne, Report to the Lord President of the Council, 1879.
(34) and (35) J. F. Payne also contributed the articles on "Plague" to the
Encyclopedia Britanniea and to Quain's Dictionary of Medicine,
GERMAN.
(36) Haeser, Geschichte der Epidemischen Krankheiten, Jena, 1882.
[This work forms the third volume of his History of Medicine, and is said to be the
most complete medical history of epidemics extant.]
(37) Hecker, Volkskrankheitan des Mittelalters, ed. Hirsch, Berlin, 1865.
[Hecker's work on plague has been translated by Babington, and was published by the
Sydenham Society in London, 1844.]
FRENCH.
(38) Tholozan, Histoire de la Peste Bubonique en Perse, Paris, 1874.
(39) Tholozan, La Peste en Turquie dans les Temps Modernes, Paris, 1880.
(40) Tholozan, Epidemies de Peste de Caucase, Paris, 1879.
Other English works on plague which have appeared during this century
are-
ENGLISH.
(41) Calvert, On the Plague in Malta, 1813, Med.-Chi. Trans. vi. i.
(42) MacLean, On Epidemic and Pestilential Diseases, London, 1817.
[This work is in two small volumes, and treats of yellow fever, plague and epidemic
diseases generally. It is of little value.]
(43) Faulkner, A Treatise on the Plague, London, 1820.
[A small volume dealing with the question of contagion: which he endeavours to prove
is an attribute of plague from conclusions based on his own experience in the
Malta epidemic of that time. It is interestingly written, and contains diagrams
and maps; but is of little practical value now.]
(44) J. D. Tully, History of the Plague in Malta, Gozo, Corfu, and Cephalonia, London,
1821.
[An octavo volume of considerable interest.]
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