Preface
Epidemic in Athens, 430-427 B.C.E.
Malaria in ancient Rome
Plague of the Antonines
First plague pandemic, 541-747
Smallpox epidemic in Japan, 735-737
Leprosy in medieval Europe
Second plague pandemic, 1346-1844
"French disease" in sixteenth-century Europe
Epidemics in sixteenth-century America
Epidemics and the thirty years' war, 1618-1648
Plague in Italian cities, 1630s
Epidemics in China, 1640-1644
Plague in London, 1665
Smallpox in Iceland, 1707-1709
Plague in Marseilles, 1720-1722
Smallpox in Boston, 1721
Smallpox in eighteenth-century Europe
Plague in Moscow, 1771
Influenza pandemic, 1781-1782
Yellow fever in Hispaniola, 1793-1804
Yellow fever in Philadelphia, 1793
First cholera pandemic, 1817-1824
Consumption in the nineteenth century
Second cholera pandemic, 1827-1835
Third cholera pandemic, 1839-1856
"Fevers" and the great famine in Ireland, 1846-1850
Typhoid fever in cities, 1850-1920
Yellow fever in New Orleans, 1853
Fourth cholera pandemic, 1863-1875
Carrion's disease in Peru, 1870-1871
Smallpox in Europe, 1870-1875
Measles in Fiji, 1875
Fifth cholera pandemic, 1881-1896
Influenza pandemic, 1889-1890
Cholera epidemic in Hamburg, 1892
Third plague pandemic, 1894-?
Sixth cholera pandemic, 1899-1923
Sleeping sickness in east central Africa, 1900-1905
Typhoid Mary's "epidemics"
Cholera epidemic in Naples, 1910-1911
Poliomyelitis in the United States, 1916
Influenza pandemic, 1918-1919
Lung cancer in the United States, mid-twentieth century
Poliomyelitis in the United States, 1945-1955
Seventh cholera pandemic, 1961-present
Aids in the United States, 1980s
Contemporary aids pandemic
The mad cow crisis and transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, 1985-present
Contemporary malaria
Contemporary tuberculosis
Epilogue
Glossary.