Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface: The Eighteenth-Century Slump?; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Short Titles; 1 Introduction: Medical Theory in Early Modern Europe; 2 Restoration Medicine and the Dissenters; 3 Populist Writing on Diseases in the Late Seventeenth Century; 4 The Search for Middle Ground: Disease Theory as Natural History; 5 Animalcules and Animals; 6 English Contagionism and Hans Sloane's Circle; 7 An English Treatise on Living Contagion: Benjamin Marten's New Theory of Consumptions, 1720

8 Smallpox Inoculation and the Royal Society, 1700-17239 Contagion and Plague in the Eighteenth Century; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index