Mark Harrison - Contagion: How Commerce Has Spread Disease

Copyright 2012 Mark Harrison

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Harrison, Mark.
Contagion: how commerce has spread disease/Mark Harrison.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 9780300123579 (cl:alk. paper)

1. Epidemics. 2. Communicable diseases. 3. International trade. I. Title.
RA651.H37 2013
614.4dc23

2012017219

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Unless otherwise stated all images are courtesy of the Wellcome Library, London.

Monro Scott Orr, map showing the history and distribution of the Black Death around the world, c.1920.

Pierre Mignard after F. de Poilly and Henri Arnauld, Saint Carlo Borromeo administering communion to victims of the plague in Milan of 1576, c.1645.

Small poster or leaflet from Ferrara dated 11 December 1679 proclaiming restrictions on trade, from G.M. Estense Tassoni, Prohibitione di comercio di tutto il Trentino e de Siginori Griggioni (Ferrara, 1679).

Orders conceived and published by the Lord Major and Aldermen of the City of London, concerning the Infection of the Plague, 1665.

Augustus Earle after Edward Francis Finden and Maria Callcott, European men examining slaves at the slave market of Rio de Janeiro, 1824.

Slave quarters on a sugar plantation in Martinique, from Voyage pittoresque dans les deux Amriques. Rsum gnral de tous les voyages de Colomb, Las-Casas, Oviedo Humboldt Franklin etc (Paris, 1836).

travels, some now first printed from original manuscripts, others now first published in English (London, 17446).

Health pass (fede di sanit), Officio della sanit di Venetia, Venice, 1713.

James Barry, R.A., the Thames as a gateway to foreign trade routes, 1791.

Sea view of the lazaretto at Genoa, from John Howard, An account of the principal Lazarettos in Europe (Warrington, 1789).

The quarantine station (Offizia della Sanita) at Naples, from John Howard, An account of the principal Lazarettos in Europe (London, 1791).

Sketch of a model lazaretto, from John Howard, An account of the principal Lazarettos in Europe (London, 1791).

W. Ward after J. Jackson, portrait of Sir James McGrigor, c.1815.

Nicolas-Eustache Maurin, the plague in Barcelona, 1821.

Tiberius Cavallo, portrait of Clot Bey, from Giovanni Birch, Teoria e pratica dell'elettricit medica; e della forza dell'elettricit nella cura della suppressione de' mestrui, del chirurgo (Naples, 1784).

Henry Cousins after Martin Archer Shee, portrait of Sir William Burnett, c.1840.

Unknown artist, portrait of James Ormiston McWilliam, c.1845.

Front cover of James Ormiston McWilliam, Medical History of the Expedition to the Niger during the years 18412: comprising an account of the fever which led to its abrupt termination