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(45) F. Forbes, On Plague in the N.-W. Provinces of India, Edinburgh, 1840.
(46) White, Treatise on the Plague, London, 1847.
[Deals with the plague at Corfu.]
(47) Bascome, History of Epidemic Pestilences, London, 1851.
[Like MacLean, this work does not deal exclusively with Plague.]
The works of Drs. Pearson and Francis also deserve mention. They are
scattered over various volumes of Transactions of Societies, but are valuable as
containing the results of the first plague autopsies made by Englishmen. Up till
quite recently, indeed, our knowledge of the morbid anatomy of plague was
derived almost entirely from the works of the French physicians in Egypt in
1835-36.* In this connection the work of the Plague Research Committee
(Capt., now Major, L. F. Childe's Department) was exceedingly valuable, and
ranks at the present time as the chief authority on the subject.
GERMAN.
Three important works in German may be mentioned:-
(48) Lersch, Kleine Pest, Kronik, 1880.
["A convenient short compendium, but not always accurate."]
(49) Hirsch and Sommerrodt, Pest-Epidemic in Astrakhan, 1878-79, Berlin, 1880.
(50) Hoeniger, Der Schwarz Toed in Deulschland, Berlin, 1882.
FRENCH.
The French works on plague which appeared at this time were important:--
(51) Bulard, De la Peste Orientale, Paris, 1839;
(52) Clot Bey, De la Peste en Egypte, Paris, 1840;
(53) Prus, Rapport sur la Peste, Paris, 1846;
(54) Zuber, La Peste D'Astrakhan en 7878-79, Paris, 1880;
and lastly,
(55) Littre's Dictionary of Medicine, Art. "Peste,"
in which the French epidemics are synopsized.
But many works on plague have been published long after (sometimes as
much as a century or more) the disappearance of the particular epidemic with'
which they deal. Such are-
(56) Richardson, Plague and Pestilence in the North of England, Newcastle, 1852;
(57) Sydenham, Febris Pestilentiulis et Pestis annorum 7665-66, ed, Greenhill, London,
1844;
(58) G. Lambert, Histoire de la Peste de Toulon en 7727, Toulon, 1861.
Since 1890.
The outbreaks in Hongkong, in Egypt, in the Red Sea ports, and finally in
this (the Bombay) Presidency have revived the interest in this disease, and have
stimulated the exertions of many thousands to discover something more about
it, and works on Plague, either large or small, comprehensive or of limited scope,
have issued within the last few years. A brief catalogue or summary of these
remains to be given.
*"Earlier observations are of no value, and in the later epidemics of Irak and Russia, none have been made."__
Eneye. Brit.