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Global 45: Documents

Introduction

This page provides a listing of specific primary sources and secondary sources on documenting the history of pandemics.

Events and Sources

Event Primary Source One Primary Source Two Secondary Sources
Plague of Athens Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Book 2, Chaper Seven   R Mitchell-Boyask. Plague and the Athenian Imagination (2008). 
Antonine Plague/ Plague of Galen Marcus Aurelius. Meditations IX.2 Certaine vvorkes of Galens, called Methodus medendi with a briefe declaration of the worthie art of medicine. The Fift Booke. The xij. Chapter. Duncan-Jones. "The Impact of the Antonine Plague". Journal. of Roman Archaeology 9, 1996, 108-136.
Black Plague in Italy The Black Death : the great mortality of 1348-1350 : a brief history with documents Gentile da Foligno -- Regimen of protection against epidemics. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio  
Middle East Plague Ibn al-Wardi: "An Essay on the Report of the Pestilence." In: The Black Death: the great mortality of 1348-1350: a brief history with documents. p, 16 Travels in Asia and Africa : 1325-1354. Ibn Battuta, p, 305-306.  
New World Small Pox The Broken Spears General history of the things of New Spain : Florentine codex / translated from the Aztec into English, with notes and illustrations, by Arthur J.O. Anderson [and] Charles E. Dibble. Part 13 (Book 12, pg. 83): The Conquest of Mexico.  
Great Plague of London The shutting up infected houses as it is practised in England soberly debated Medela pestilentiae, or, Rules for the prevention, and cure of the plague ; Rules for the prevention, and cure of the plague ;
wherein is contained several theological queries concerning the plague, with approved antidotes, signes, and symptoms : also, an exact method
for curing that epidemical distemper : humbly presented to the Right Honourable, and Right Worshipful, the lord mayor and sheriffs of the
city of London.		  
1771 Russian Plague An account of the plague which raged at Moscow, in 1771   Castéra, Jean-Henri. History of Catharine II. Empress of Russia.
Smallpox Riots-Virginia Virginia Gazette, September 8, 1768, Mess: Purdie & Dixon Supplement to the Virginia Gazette (2) 1768-08-25 (The following was designed for last week's paper..)  
1803 Influenza Britain An address of thanks from the faculty to the Right Honble, Mr. Influenzy for his kind visit to this country. An inquiry into the causes which produce, preserve, and propagate febrile contagious diseases, in Newcastle and Gateshead.  
1817 - 1st Cholera Outbreak in Bengal, China, Indonesia Report on the epidemick cholera morbus as it visited the territories subject to the Presidency of Bengal, in the years 1817, 1818 and 1819. Sketches of the most prevalent diseases of India: comprising a treatise on the epidemic cholera of the East  
1846 3rd Cholera Outbreak in Russia and Subsequently Mecca The cholera epidemic of 1892 in the Russian empire ; with notes upon treatment and methods of disinfection in cholera, and a short account of the conference on cholera held in St. Petersburg in December, 1892 History of the epidemic spasmodic cholera of Russia: including a copious account of the disease which has prevailed in India, and which has travelled, under that name, from Asia into Europe. Illustrated by numerous official and other documents, explanatory of the nature, treatment, and prevention of the malady Jeff Sahadeo, "Epidemic and Empire: Ethnicity, Class, and "Civilization" in the 1892 Tashkent Cholera Riot." Slavic Review, Vol. 64, No. 1 (Spring, 2005), pp. 117-139.
1848 Measles/Leprosy in the Kingdom of Hawai'i. Collection of newspaper articles about leprosy from the 19th century Leprosy in Hawaii ; extracts from reports of presidents of the Board of Health, government physicians and others  
Colonial Disease Management in Lagos, Nigeria. War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Africa, Confidential Print: Nos. 999 to 1002. CO 879/112—No. 132. “Gold Coast: The Governor to the Secretary of State.” African No. 999 Confidential: Africa, Further Correspondence January to June, 1913 Relating to Medical and Sanitary Matters in Tropical Africa. April 14, 1913 War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Africa, Confidential Print: Nos. 999 to 1002. CO 879/112—No. 57. “Gold Coast: The Governor to the Secretary of State: Peti-tion from the Gold Coast Auxiliary of the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Pro-tection Society re: non-employment of native medical practitioners in Gov-ernment Service.” African No. 999 Confidential: Africa, Further Correspondence January to June, 1913 Relating to Medical and Sanitary Matters in Tropical Africa.March 3 (received), 1913  
Black Plague in Harbin, China: Manchurian Plague First Report of the North Manchuran Plague Prevention Service. Studies on pneumonic plague and plague immunization, pt.1-2,4-9  
1904 Plague in San Francisco Eradicating plague from San Francisco : report of the Citizens' Health Committee Report of the Special Health Commissioners to confer with the federal authorities at Washington respecting the alleged existence of bubonic plague in Californua.  
1919 Cholera China Foochow Cholera Epidemic. (1919, Jul 26). The North - China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette (1870-1941). Cholera Very Severe in Manchuria. The North - China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette.