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Plague! by
From the first recorded pandemic in 540 C.E. to the present day, plague has claimed tens of millions of lives around the world. Known as the Black Death in the Middle Ages, people often died within days of being infected. Because doctors did not know what caused this mysterious disease, treatments ranged from common sense to bizarre. Modern medicine has solved the mystery, yet plague remains a killer, even today.
The Black Death 1347-1350 : the plague spreads across Europe by
Did you know that the plague began in central Asia before it swept across Europe, killing one-third of the population? Raging disease wiped out whole towns. In a remote village in Norway, everyone died, except one little girl who survived for months alone. In this book, learn how fleas and rats spread the disease and how the plague ultimately benefited the poor who survived. Fascinating facts about medieval society and medicine are in this book. Timelines, a glossary, ideas for research, and suggestions for future reading are included in this gripping read about a medieval tragedy.
The Black Death by
This book looks at the origins of the bubonic plague that ravaged the medieval world in the late 1340s and traces its march through Europe as it killed one third of the population.
Medieval Medicine and the Plague by
This new book illustrates how death and incurable disease were considered a common part of medieval life. Readers will be fascinated by the history of the Black Death, or the Plague, which killed millions of people in Europe, and why medical treatments in the Middle Ages were often worse than the disease. Topics include a timeline of medical changes through the Middle Ages, common medieval diseases and their causes (such as smallpox, tuberculosis, diphtheria, and leprosy), operations and treatments such as bloodletting, and cauterizing, medicine makers such as apothecaries and housewives and women's place in medicine.
Encyclopedia of Plague and Pestilence by
Epidemic disease has decimated populations and caused great suffering all over the world. This encyclopedia traces the roles that diseases have played throughout world history and offers information on more than 700 epidemics and their effects on civilization.