Plagues & Epidemics

Black Death (1347-52)

• Justinian, 541-44
• Black Death, 1347-52
• modern, late 19c-early20c

Great Plague of London, 1665-66

demos

• en-
• epi-
• pan-

symptoms / tokens
buboes

infectious
seasonal
London, bills of mortality
Isaac Newton, annus mirabilis

quarantine - cordon sanitaire
Johann Gabriel Sparwenfeld, 1680s-90s

cholera
John Snow

anthrax
germ theory

• Louis Pasteur
  • Pasteur Institute, Paris 1889
• Robert Koch
  • Robert Koch Institute, Berlin

Hong Kong, 1894

• Shibasaburo Kitasoto
• Alexandre Yersin