Author: Thomas Lodge
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A treatise of the plague
Author: Thomas Lodge
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Languages : en
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The Workes of that Famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey
Author: Ambroise Paré
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Category : Anatomy
Languages : en
Pages : 900
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Category : Anatomy
Languages : en
Pages : 900
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Nights of Plague
Author: Orhan Pamuk
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525656901
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 746
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From the the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature: Part detective story, part historical epic—a bold and brilliant novel that imagines a plague ravaging a fictional island in the Ottoman Empire. It is April 1900, in the Levant, on the imaginary island of Mingheria—the twenty-ninth state of the Ottoman Empire—located in the eastern Mediterranean between Crete and Cyprus. Half the population is Muslim, the other half are Orthodox Greeks, and tension is high between the two. When a plague arrives—brought either by Muslim pilgrims returning from the Mecca or by merchant vessels coming from Alexandria—the island revolts. To stop the epidemic, the Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II sends his most accomplished quarantine expert to the island—an Orthodox Christian. Some of the Muslims, including followers of a popular religious sect and its leader Sheikh Hamdullah, refuse to take precautions or respect the quarantine. And then a murder occurs. As the plague continues its rapid spread, the Sultan sends a second doctor to the island, this time a Muslim, and strict quarantine measures are declared. But the incompetence of the island’s governor and local administration and the people’s refusal to respect the bans doom the quarantine to failure, and the death count continues to rise. Faced with the danger that the plague might spread to the West and to Istanbul, the Sultan bows to international pressure and allows foreign and Ottoman warships to blockade the island. Now the people of Mingheria are on their own, and they must find a way to defeat the plague themselves. Steeped in history and rife with suspense, Nights of Plague is an epic story set more than one hundred years ago, with themes that feel remarkably contemporary.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525656901
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
From the the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature: Part detective story, part historical epic—a bold and brilliant novel that imagines a plague ravaging a fictional island in the Ottoman Empire. It is April 1900, in the Levant, on the imaginary island of Mingheria—the twenty-ninth state of the Ottoman Empire—located in the eastern Mediterranean between Crete and Cyprus. Half the population is Muslim, the other half are Orthodox Greeks, and tension is high between the two. When a plague arrives—brought either by Muslim pilgrims returning from the Mecca or by merchant vessels coming from Alexandria—the island revolts. To stop the epidemic, the Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II sends his most accomplished quarantine expert to the island—an Orthodox Christian. Some of the Muslims, including followers of a popular religious sect and its leader Sheikh Hamdullah, refuse to take precautions or respect the quarantine. And then a murder occurs. As the plague continues its rapid spread, the Sultan sends a second doctor to the island, this time a Muslim, and strict quarantine measures are declared. But the incompetence of the island’s governor and local administration and the people’s refusal to respect the bans doom the quarantine to failure, and the death count continues to rise. Faced with the danger that the plague might spread to the West and to Istanbul, the Sultan bows to international pressure and allows foreign and Ottoman warships to blockade the island. Now the people of Mingheria are on their own, and they must find a way to defeat the plague themselves. Steeped in history and rife with suspense, Nights of Plague is an epic story set more than one hundred years ago, with themes that feel remarkably contemporary.
On Pestilence
Author: Girolamo Mercuriale
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 081225354X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Physician Girolamo Mercuriale pronounced in On Pestilence that plague was characterized by its lethal nature and the rapidity with which it spread. His work appears here for the first time in English, with an introduction that places the work within the context of the history of medicine, and our own responses to epidemic disease.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 081225354X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Physician Girolamo Mercuriale pronounced in On Pestilence that plague was characterized by its lethal nature and the rapidity with which it spread. His work appears here for the first time in English, with an introduction that places the work within the context of the history of medicine, and our own responses to epidemic disease.
A Treatise on Plague Dealing with the Historical, Epidemiological, Clinical, Therapeutic and Preventive Aspects of the Disease
Author: Sir William John Simpson
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Category : Hygiene
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Category : Hygiene
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World
Author: Nükhet Varlik
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107013380
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
This is the first systematic scholarly study of the Ottoman experience of plague during the Black Death pandemic and the centuries that followed. Using a wealth of archival and narrative sources, including medical treatises, hagiographies, and travelers' accounts, as well as recent scientific research, Nükhet Varlik demonstrates how plague interacted with the environmental, social, and political structures of the Ottoman Empire from the late medieval through the early modern era. The book argues that the empire's growth transformed the epidemiological patterns of plague by bringing diverse ecological zones into interaction and by intensifying the mobilities of exchange among both human and non-human agents. Varlik maintains that persistent plagues elicited new forms of cultural imagination and expression, as well as a new body of knowledge about the disease. In turn, this new consciousness sharpened the Ottoman administrative response to the plague, while contributing to the makings of an early modern state.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107013380
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
This is the first systematic scholarly study of the Ottoman experience of plague during the Black Death pandemic and the centuries that followed. Using a wealth of archival and narrative sources, including medical treatises, hagiographies, and travelers' accounts, as well as recent scientific research, Nükhet Varlik demonstrates how plague interacted with the environmental, social, and political structures of the Ottoman Empire from the late medieval through the early modern era. The book argues that the empire's growth transformed the epidemiological patterns of plague by bringing diverse ecological zones into interaction and by intensifying the mobilities of exchange among both human and non-human agents. Varlik maintains that persistent plagues elicited new forms of cultural imagination and expression, as well as a new body of knowledge about the disease. In turn, this new consciousness sharpened the Ottoman administrative response to the plague, while contributing to the makings of an early modern state.
Plague, Quarantines and Geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire
Author: Birsen Bulmus
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748655476
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
A sweeping examination of Ottoman plague treatise writers from the Black Death until 1923
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748655476
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
A sweeping examination of Ottoman plague treatise writers from the Black Death until 1923
A Treatise of the Plague
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Category : Plague
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Category : Plague
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Plague at Marseilles Consider'd
Author: Richard Bradley
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040622708
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 55
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Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040622708
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 55
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Loimologia, Or, An Historical Account of the Plague in London in 1665
Author: Nathaniel Hodges
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Category : Epidemics
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Publisher:
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Category : Epidemics
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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