Preface
1. The nature of plagues
2. Plagues, the price of being sedentary
3. Six plagues of antiquity
4. An ancient plague, the black death
5. A modern plague, AIDS
6. Typhus, a fever plague
7. Malaria, another fever plague
8. King cholera
9. Smallpox, the spotted plague
10. Preventing plagues
11. The plague protectors
12. The great pox syphilis
13. The people's plague : tuberculosis
14. Leprosy, the striking hand of God
15. Six plagues of Africa
16. Plagues without germs
17. Plagues on order
Appendix : Cells and viruses
General works on disease and history
Notes
Index.