The Great Plague. The Story of London\'s Most Deadly Year
276 • The Great Plague mass of bacilli, all identical. They are very small rods, thick with rounded ends and lightly colored.” H ...
Epilogue• 277 Each of these modern approaches found backing in ancient medical tradi- tion: on the one hand, cleaning up pollute ...
278 • The Great Plague visit to the Pasteur Institute in Paris the next year, he cultivated attenuated bacilli and serum antibod ...
Epilogue • 279 ondary hosts can be as disparate as rabbits, camels, and humans. The plague microbe Yersinia pestishas been able ...
280 • The Great Plague 1665 would fit a present-day diagnosis. Their external observations mirror with considerable precision wh ...
Epilogue• 281 A possible explanation is that rats have a habit of going back to their nests when they become ill. The Pasteur In ...
282 • The Great Plague looking for the closest warm body. Thus an epidemic began. When the rats started dying in large numbers, ...
Epilogue• 283 usually discernible in three days, matching the descriptions of Boghurst and others. The bloodstream soon becomes ...
284 • The Great Plague handling plague patients detected the signs and symptoms used diagnosti- cally by Hodges, Boghurst, and o ...
Epilogue• 285 relations among the four players: microbe, flea, rodent, and human. It is im- possible to sort out all the possibl ...
286 • The Great Plague for a human.^48 A new plague epidemic would await either a bacterial muta- tion into a more virulent stra ...
Epilogue• 287 ent DNA found on ribosomes within the cells of all organisms. From seventy specimens of plague in sixteen differen ...
288 • The Great Plague Perils and Prospects Perhaps, as we grow almost smug about influenza, that most quotidian of infec- tions ...
Epilogue • 289 plant seems to attack malaria at many stages in its life cycle, completely de- stroying the parasites.^55 Among a ...
290 • The Great Plague nessman was hospitalized. That case and others that followed went unre- ported by the authorities for fou ...
Epilogue• 291 Polio’s recent history, however, raises alarm bells about the efficacy of eradicating infectious diseases. The Wor ...
292 • The Great Plague The “microbe hunters” did not vanish after the appearance of Paul De- Kruf ’s classic book with that allu ...
Bills of Mortality for Greater London [ 293 ] APPENDIX A Table A.1.Greater London Bills of Mortality: Nonplague Burials in April ...
294 • Appendix A Table A.2.Greater London Bills of Mortality: Total Burials and Plague Burials, December 27, 1664–December 26, 1 ...
Bills of Mortality for Greater London • 295 sources:London’s Dreadful Visitation;GL, MS 3604/1/1. These figures reflect the plag ...
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