Title: The conquest of plague; a study of the evolution of epidemiology.
Authors: Hirst, L. Fabian
Publisher: Clarendon Press,
Year: 1953
Subjects: Communicable Disease Control history; Plague prevention & control; Plague; Epidemiology History.
Contents: Plague and supernatural belief -- Miasma and contagion -- Miasma versus contagion -- Microbes and maladies -- The plague bacillus -- Rats and plague -- Fleas as carriers of plague -- Plague among the rodents of the Great Plains -- Interhuman plague -- The temporal spread of plague -- The territorial spread of plague -- Territorial immunity to plague -- The international control of plague -- The national control of bubonic plague.