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Index
Abraham, Thomas, 241, 242, 269, 270, 288
AIDS, 198, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 208, 224, 230, 236, 265, 266, 271, 277, 281, 285, 297, 298, 305, 306
Allen, Arthur, 191, 264, 288, 289, 298
amebiasis, 200, 271
anaemia, 20, 38, 105, 106, 107, 120, 223, 273, 283, 284
Andry, Nicolas, 163
anthrax, 25, 54, 99, 160, 165, 166, 167, 169, 176, 188, 237, 240, 241, 270, 271, 296, 298, 308
anthroponosis, 137
antibiotics, 12, 15, 193, 224, 233, 238, 239, 242, 269, 279
Antonine, Plague of, 14, 54, 55, 56, 57, 152, 180, 250, 279, 284, 300
arthritis, 20, 22, 26, 68, 78, 79, 238, 271, 279
Asclepia, 44, 272
Asclepius, 43, 44, 45, 272, 296, 301
Athens, Plague of, 14, 41, 42, 43, 50, 59, 74, 101
avian flu (bird flu/H5N1), 31, 174, 189, 234, 235, 241, 269, 272, 288, 293, 302, 306
AZT, (azidothymidine), 204
bacillus, 59, 60, 89, 95, 137, 143, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 166, 167, 168, 169
bacteria, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 25, 30, 59, 105, 110, 119, 148, 165, 167, 181, 191, 193, 200, 213, 231, 237, 239, 279, 282, 284, 285
bacteriology, 162, 168
Balmis, Francisco Javier de, 136
Banting, Frederick, 213
Bartholin, Thomas, 119
Bassi, Agostino, 164, 167
Bazalgette, Sir Joseph, 149, 296
Bede, the Venerable, 57, 69, 71, 72, 251, 252, 289
Bedlam (Bethlem Royal Hospital), 122, 123, 124, 125, 186, 257, 258, 291
bejel, 110, 114
beriberi, 48, 49, 272
Best, Charles, 213
Biddiss, Michael, 72, 235, 252, 261, 262, 291
Bignami, Amico, 173, 174
bilharzia, 283
biological weapon, 240, 271
bird flu, 189, 234, 272
Black Death, 4, 11, 12, 48, 61, 72, 83, 84, 89, 90, 91, 94, 97, 98, 99, 104, 131, 145, 152, 170, 182, 190, 200, 233, 240, 254, 281, 288, 289, 290, 291, 293, 294, 295, 296, 297, 298, 300, 302, 307, 309
black vomit (el vomito negro), 127, 129, 277, 287
Blaser, Martin J, 239, 269, 290
Boylston, Zabdiel, 135
Bradley, Richard, 163
bronchitis, 49, 272
BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy or mad cow disease), 231, 272
bubonic, 12, 31, 43, 55, 57, 59, 60, 61, 62, 98, 280, 281, 286
Budd, William, 148, 149, 158
Bynum, Helen, 141, 142, 246, 260, 290
Cameron, ML, 69, 70, 71, 251, 252, 262, 291
cancer, 15, 38, 39, 119, 199, 200, 202, 209, 215, 216, 217, 218, 239, 268, 273, 302
cardiovascular disease, 209
cardiovascular system, 39, 76, 111, 272
Carrión’s disease, 107, 273
Cartwright, Frederick F, 72, 235, 252, 261, 262, 291
Casals, Jordi, 222, 223, 225
cattle plague, 147, 273, 282
cell theory, 216
Celsus, 53, 114, 118
Center for Disease Control (CDC), 199, 200, 204, 222, 225, 227, 238, 301
Chadwick, Edwin, 156, 162
Chagas’ disease, 107, 273
chemotherapy, 217
chicken pox, 25, 273
cholera, 15, 19, 46, 147, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 168, 171, 173, 187, 188, 194, 195, 198, 200, 213, 235, 236, 273, 293, 294, 296, 297, 300
Conrad, Lawrence, 178, 292
consumption, 46, 119, 136, 137, 141, 143, 209, 210, 277
Cox, Margaret, 77, 79, 253, 254, 256, 305
Crawford, Dorothy, 19, 21, 22, 132, 186, 244, 245, 259, 260, 264, 265, 266, 292
Creighton, Charles, 72, 74, 75, 252, 259, 264, 292, 297
Crosby, Alfred W, 26, 187, 292
Cullen, William, 212
cyanobacteria, 17
Cyprian, Plague of, 14, 56, 57, 58, 101, 279, 303
Davaine, Casimir-Joseph, 166
Davies, Sally, 238, 239, 242, 261, 270, 292
Davis, Mike, 176, 178, 263, 293
DDT (dichlorodiphenyltri-chloroethane), 192, 193
dengue fever, 132, 231, 274, 280
diabetes, 20, 209, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 217, 239, 274, 277, 280, 291, 307
diarrhoea, 42, 46, 52, 55, 56, 60, 145, 147, 151, 165, 190, 200, 219, 223, 224, 271, 275, 280, 283
diphtheria, 19, 105, 168, 169, 236, 274
disease burden, 22, 23, 24, 33
Dobson, Mary, 186, 209, 210, 212, 259, 261, 263, 264, 265, 266, 269, 293
dracunculiasis, 31, 41, 274
Dritz, Selma, 199, 200
dropsy, 51, 275
Duvenhage, 272
dysentery, 26, 52, 53, 68, 75, 106, 119, 145, 147, 158, 183, 200, 271, 275, 284
Ebola, 13, 223, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 272, 275, 277, 283, 291, 304, 309
Ehrlich, Paul, 167, 217
el vomito negro (black vomit), 128, 287
elephantiasis, 54, 108, 173, 275
encephalitis, 1
32, 231, 236, 275
Engels, Friedrich, 157
English Sweate, 115, 117, 275
epidemiology, 116, 162
epilepsy, 36, 46, 54, 58, 119, 125, 126, 142, 168, 275, 307
ergotism (St Anthony’s Fire), 75, 76, 77, 253, 262, 276, 287
erysipelas, 165, 276
fatal familial insomnia, 231, 276
Fleck, Ludwik, 192
Fleming, Alexander, 193, 194, 237, 290
flu, 171, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 205, 219, 231, 232, 234, 235, 241, 272, 277, 280
Fracastoro, Girolamo (Fracastorius), 109, 111, 112, 113, 163, 252
Galen, 44, 50, 51, 52, 54, 55, 70, 96, 114, 118, 126, 142, 163, 215, 217, 275, 300, 306
Garrett, Laurie, 194, 222, 224, 265, 266, 268, 295
gastrointestinal disease, 37, 46, 52, 54, 165
Gerhard, William Wood, 148, 149
germ theory, 14, 159, 160, 161, 163, 164, 165, 166, 168, 180, 271
Gerstmann–Sträussler–Scheinker syndrome, 231, 276
Gilman, Sander L, 214, 215, 267, 295
Gorgas, William Crawford, 132, 175, 176
Gout, 276, 304
Grassi, Giovanni Battista, 174
Graunt, John, 119, 120, 277
H1N1 (bird flu), 188, 234
H2N2 (Asian flu), 234
HAART (Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy), 206
haemorrhagic fever, 220, 274, 275, 277, 278, 279, 283
Haffkine, Waldemar, 161, 162, 170, 179
Halfdead disease, 277
Harrison, Mark, 171, 258, 262, 296
Harvey, William, 118, 309
heart attack, 119, 209, 277
heart disease, 110, 209, 210, 211, 214, 218, 277, 280
Hecker, Justus, 116, 117, 257, 275, 297
hemiplegia, 69, 277
Hendra, 230, 272
hepatitis, 54, 106, 200, 201, 220, 236, 277
Hewlett, Barry, 228
Hippocrates (and Hippocratic), 45, 46, 47, 50, 52, 70, 94, 96, 101, 114, 118, 126, 137, 140, 142, 164, 186, 215, 242, 243, 271, 275, 300, 303
Hirsch, August, 76, 101, 140, 144, 210, 259, 260, 297
HIV, 198, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 217, 226, 230, 236, 277, 284, 292, 298, 304
Hodgkin, Thomas, 216
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 164
Honigsbaum, Mark, 182, 189, 263, 264, 297
Hooke, Robert, 119, 163
Hudson, Robert P, 14, 244
humours and humoural theory, 46, 47, 50, 59, 82, 107, 118, 123, 124, 126, 141, 142, 215, 216, 242, 244
