by Sean Martin
Humphreys, Margaret, 133, 260
Huntington’s chorea, 118, 277, 287
immune deficiency, 199, 200, 201
influenza, 31, 43, 46, 105, 182, 183, 186, 187, 188, 233, 234, 272, 277, 285, 289, 292, 298, 299, 301, 304, 306
inoculation, 134, 135
insulin, 213
jaundice, 51, 54, 69, 70, 128, 277, 284, 287
Jenner, Edward, 26, 133, 135, 136, 148, 149, 197, 209
Joslin, Elliott, 213, 267
Justinian, Plague of, 59, 61, 62, 64, 65, 67, 72, 94, 98, 99, 281, 308
Kaposi’s sarcoma, 200, 201, 202, 203
Karlen, Arno, 21, 23, 24, 68, 106, 230, 231, 245, 251, 255, 262, 269, 298
Kitasato, Shibasaburo, 169
Koch, Robert, 15, 160, 161, 162, 163, 166, 167, 168, 169, 173, 188, 214, 271, 299
Kuru, 231, 278
Kyasanur Forest Virus, 230, 231, 272, 283
Lassa fever, 221, 222, 223, 225, 230, 277, 278, 283
Laveran, Alphonse, 173
Le Fanu, James, 239, 269, 299
Leach, Steve A, 240, 270, 301
Legionnaires’ disease, 231, 278, 281
leprosy (Hansen’s disease), 20, 25, 28, 40, 49, 53, 54, 58, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 102, 103, 108, 111, 114, 115, 119, 126, 143, 168, 171, 200, 217, 278, 282, 290, 293
leukaemia, 216, 218
Lister, Joseph, 15, 165, 216
Longmate, Norman, 150, 261, 300
Lupus vulgaris, 137, 143, 278
Lyme disease, 231, 278
malaria, 13, 17, 18, 26, 41, 46, 49, 51, 52, 53, 61, 69, 74, 105, 106, 107, 131, 132, 173, 174, 175, 176, 178, 194, 197, 222, 223, 235, 236, 240, 278, 279, 280, 282, 284, 293, 300, 302, 305
Manchester, Keith, 20, 244, 245, 246, 253, 305
Manson, Patrick, 173, 174
Marburg virus, 19, 219, 220, 221, 222, 225, 226, 230, 272, 277, 279, 283
Mattern, Susan, 51, 249, 300
McNeill, William, 32, 48, 57, 66, 73, 235, 247, 249, 250, 251, 252, 255, 269, 301
measles, 25, 26, 43, 56, 57, 61, 102, 105, 119, 171, 228, 236, 239, 274, 279, 305
Medlock, Joylon M, 240, 270, 301
meningitis, 23, 46, 110, 202, 281
miasma (theory), 15, 52, 94, 95, 96, 131, 132, 135, 146, 149, 157, 159, 160, 161, 163
microbiology, 119, 163
microscopy, 160, 173, 216
Møller-Christensen, Vilhelm, 78, 79
Monro, Thomas, 121, 123, 288
MRSA, 237, 238, 242, 243, 279, 301
Neal, Frank, 147, 260, 302
Nicolle, Charles, 191, 192
Nikiforuk, Andrew, 109, 189, 235, 242, 248, 253, 255, 256, 264, 269, 270, 302
Nipah, 230, 232, 272, 280, 283
Nunn, John, 36, 39, 40, 247, 248, 302
obesity, 209, 214, 215, 239, 274, 280, 295
Omsk haemorrhagic fever, 222, 280
Osler, William, 110, 209
osteoarthritis, 20, 79, 271
osteomyelitis, 20, 238, 279
osteoporosis, 20, 41
paleopathology, 14, 20, 21, 43, 62, 68, 77, 78, 115, 136, 244, 253, 289, 302
pandemic, 11, 59, 61, 65, 66, 67, 68, 72, 78, 95, 97, 98, 99, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 155, 157, 159, 162, 169, 170, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 199, 203, 205, 206, 207, 208, 232, 233, 234, 236, 241, 272, 273, 277, 278, 281, 283, 285
Paracelsus, 118, 140, 212
Pasteur Institute, 11, 168, 169, 202
Pasteur, Louis, 11, 14, 138, 160, 161, 163, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 188, 191, 202, 271, 282
PCP (Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia), 199, 200, 201
pellagra (land scurvy), 121, 276, 280
penicillin, 193, 221, 237, 290, 299
pertussis, 236, 287
Pettenkofer, Max, 156, 161
phage, 19
phthisis, 137, 140, 143, 280
pinta, 106, 114, 280
Piot, Peter, 201, 202, 205, 224, 225, 265, 303
plasmodium, 17, 173, 279
pleurisy, 69, 71
Pliny the Elder, 53, 54, 249, 303
pneumonia, 46, 49, 69, 71, 106, 165, 184, 199, 231, 232, 233, 238, 278, 279, 281
pneumonic, 12, 52, 61, 98, 233, 236, 281
polio, 23, 41, 46, 194, 195, 196, 197, 206, 207, 281, 302, 308
poliomyelitis, 20
Poliomyelitis, 195
Pollington, Stephen, 71, 252, 303
Porter, Roy, 27, 28, 40, 41, 45, 58, 81, 172, 177, 246, 248, 250, 254, 257, 258, 262, 263, 288, 292, 303, 304
Pott’s disease, 137, 143, 281
Prusiner, Stanley, 231, 232
psoriasis, 40, 49
public health, 15, 120, 135, 146, 148, 156, 157, 159, 162, 171, 180, 196, 197, 199, 204, 208, 213, 217, 218, 229, 235, 241
puerperal (childbed) fever, 119, 164, 165, 168, 276, 282
Pyorrhea, 282
Quammen, David, 26, 226, 228, 230, 246, 268, 269, 304
quarantine, 96, 97, 130, 131, 150, 152, 175, 181, 182, 189, 198, 200, 225, 226, 233, 235, 241
quinine, 106, 175, 177, 186, 223
rabies, 25, 35, 36, 53, 54, 119, 168, 188, 230, 272, 282, 289
Rawcliffe, Carole, 77, 253, 254, 291, 304
Red Cross, International Committee of, 11, 12
Reed, Walter, 131, 132, 303
relapsing fever, 109, 145, 183, 282, 286
Reston virus, 226, 227, 241
rickets, 20, 49, 68, 115, 191, 282
rinderpest, 25, 147, 176, 177, 273, 282
ringworm, 49, 282
Risk Group 4 pathogens, 220, 222, 278, 279, 282, 301
Roberts, Charlotte, 20, 77, 79, 244, 245, 246, 253, 254, 256, 305
Ross, Ronald, 131, 173, 174
Roux, Émile, 160, 161
Royal Touch, 138, 139, 259
Rudbeck, Olaus, 119
Russian flu, 187, 188, 264, 306
Sabin, Albert, 197
Salk, Jonas, 197
salmonella, 54, 148, 283, 284, 286
salmonellosis, 283
SARS, 189, 230, 232, 233, 234, 241, 242, 272, 283, 288, 306
scabies, 49, 109, 283
scarlet fever (scarlatina), 105, 115, 165, 283
Scheidel, Walter, 50, 51, 249, 250
schistosomiasis (bilharziasis), 38, 48, 283
Schoenlein, Johann Lukas, 143
scrofula, 119, 137, 138, 139, 140, 143, 283
scurvy, 20, 120, 121, 145, 280, 284
Semmelweis, Ignaz, 164, 165
septicaemia, 46, 284
Shah, Sonia, 173, 175, 262, 305
Shattuck, Lemuel, 156, 162
sheep liver fluke, 68, 284
shigellosis, 200, 284
sickle cell disease, 120, 284
Simond, Paul-Louis, 169, 170
SIV (Simian Immunodeficiency Virus), 203, 207, 284
sleeping sickness (trypanosomiasis), 21, 22, 23, 107, 172, 273
smallpox, 26, 41, 43, 56, 57, 61, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 108, 109, 120, 133, 134, 135, 136, 140, 171, 197, 198, 207, 228, 243, 284, 285, 295, 297, 306, 308
Snow, John, 157, 158, 159, 160, 262, 273, 297
Snyder, John C, 74, 252
Spanish Flu, 182, 188, 233, 234, 272, 278, 285
Spanish Lady, 182, 184, 234, 292
St Vitus Dance, 117, 118, 277, 285, 287
swine flu, 186, 188, 231
Sydenham, Thomas, 118, 285, 287
Sydenham’s chorea, 118, 285, 287
syphilis (the great pox), 20, 95, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 113, 114, 115, 119, 120, 201, 217, 236, 255, 256, 257, 280, 285, 287, 289, 292, 294, 296, 297, 304
Tanemichi, Aoyama, 169
taterapox, 102, 285
Tattersall, Robert, 211, 212, 214, 267, 307
Temkin, Owsei, 126, 247, 258, 307
tetanus (lockjaw), 36, 41, 46, 49, 54, 168, 169, 183, 285
The Lancet, 161, 173, 201, 202, 240, 301, 303, 308
Tissick, 119
toxic shock syndrome, 231, 238, 279, 285
trench foot, 183, 286
trepanation, 27, 123
tuberculosis (TB or White Death), 20, 25, 41, 46, 49, 53, 54, 81, 98, 101, 106, 119, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 150, 167, 168, 171, 188, 190, 202, 208, 236, 237, 278, 280, 281, 283, 286, 290, 293, 294, 297, 303
Tularemia, 286
typhoid, 15, 43, 52, 54, 105, 148, 149, 150, 151, 179, 180, 181, 183, 192, 195, 232, 278, 286
typhus (jail fever), 43, 49, 55, 61, 73, 74, 115, 134, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 156, 171, 180, 181, 189, 191, 192, 193, 237, 273, 282, 286, 287
vaccination/vaccine, 12, 13, 132, 133, 136, 160, 161, 167, 170, 179, 180, 181, 188, 191, 192, 194, 197, 198, 206, 219, 235, 236, 239, 281, 282
van Leeuwenhoek, Antoine, 119, 163
variant CJD (human mad cow disease), 231, 272, 278
variola, 101, 102, 284, 285
Vibrio cholerae (V. cholerae), 19, 151, 160, 161, 162
Villemin, Jean-Antoine, 167
Virchow, Rudolf, 15, 145, 157, 162, 216
Waller, John, 159, 160, 161, 163, 167, 168, 179, 257, 262, 263, 308
Weigl, Rudolf, 192, 264, 288
Weisman, Joel, 199, 200
West Nile virus, 240, 280, 287
White Death, 136, 137
whooping cough (pertussis), 171, 287
Willis, Thomas, 123, 186, 212
World Health Organization (WHO), 13, 171, 194, 197, 198, 204, 215, 220, 225, 229, 232, 233, 237, 279, 282, 285, 289, 295, 309
Wright, Almroth, 179, 180, 309
Xenopsylla cheopis (X. cheopis), 59, 60, 170
yaws, 20, 21, 109, 114, 287
yellow fever, 105, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 150, 175, 176, 225, 235, 278, 280, 287
Yersin, Alexandre, 169, 170
Yersinia pestis (Y. pestis), 59, 60, 62, 169, 280, 308
Zinsser, Hans, 74, 252, 265, 309
zoonotic diseases, 23, 25, 53, 68, 137, 176, 186, 187, 280, 284
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