Preface |
vii |
I. In the nature of an explanation and an apology |
3 |
II. Being a discussion of the relationship between science and art |
15 |
III. Leading up to the definition of bacteria and other parasites, and
digressing briefly into the question of the origin of life |
34 |
IV. On parasitism in general, and on the necessity of considering the
changing nature of infectious diseases in the historical study of epidemics |
57 |
V. Being a continuation of Chapter IV, but dealing more particularly with
so-called new diseases and with some that have disappeared |
77 |
VI. Diseases of the ancient world: a consideration of the epidemic
diseases which afflicted the ancient world |
105 |
VII. A continuation of the consideration of diseases of the ancients,
with particular attention to epidemics and the fall of Rome |
128 |
VIII. On the influence of epidemic diseases on political and military
history, and on the relative unimportance of generals |
150 |
IX. On the louse: we are now ready to consider the environment which has
helped to form the character of our subject |
166 |
X. More about the louse: the need for this chapter will be apparent to
those who have entered into then spirit of this biography |
179 |
XI. Much about rats--a little about mice |
184 |
XII. We are at last arriving at the point at which we can approach the
subject of this biography directly |
212 |
XIII. In which we consider the birth, childhood, and adolescence of
typhus |
229 |
XIV. In which we follow the earliest epidemic exploits of our disease |
240 |
XV. Young manhood: the period of early vigor and wild oats |
265 |
XVI. Appraisal of a contemporary and prospects of future education and
discipline |
282 |