What disease was plague?: on the controversy over the microbiological identity of plague epidemics of the past
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Main Author: Benedictow, Ole Jørgen 1941- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden Brill 2010
Series:Brill's series in the history of the environment 2
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Online Access:DE-1046
DE-1047
DE-188
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and indexes
The issue and the problems -- The ethics of scholarly work -- Rats -- The spread of bubonic plague over distances -- Mortality in india -- Was historical plague a viral or bacterial disease? : the question of immunity -- Defining feature 1 : latency periods -- Defining feature 2 : inverse correlation between mortality rate and population density -- Defining feature 3 : buboes as a normal clinical feature in epidemics -- Defining feature 4 : DNA of yersinia pestis from plague graves -- Defining feature 5 : seasonality of bubonic plague -- The beginning : the alternative theories of Shrewsbury and Morris -- Gunnar Karlsson's alternative theory : that historical plague was pure epidemics of primary pneumonic plague -- Twigg's alternative theory -- The alternative theory of Scott and Duncan -- Cohn's alternative theory
In this monograph, the alternative theories to the established bubonic-plague theory as to the microbiological identity of historical plague epidemics are intensively discussed in the light of the historical sources and the medical primary research and standard works
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (XVI, 746 S.)
ISBN:9789004193918
900419391X
DOI:10.1163/ej.9789004180024.i-746

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