epidemics – Plague Anthology

Leonard Woolf on Distributing Quinine in a Malaria Epidemic Ceylon – 1909 and Samuel Baker on Endemic Diseases and their Causes Ceylon – 1854

Sometime ago there was a severe outbreak of fever in some villages in West Giruwa pattu and as the only course open to me I appointed paid distributors: but I stopped it almost immediately as they are useless. I asked that if similar cases occurred again a special dispenser might be sent but was informedContinue reading “Leonard Woolf on Distributing Quinine in a Malaria Epidemic Ceylon – 1909 and Samuel Baker on Endemic Diseases and their Causes Ceylon – 1854”

Miss Tully: Letters from Tripoli during the plague epidemic 1785-6

In subsequent letters, Miss Tully reports on corsair attacks; cases of the same person enduring repeated bouts of the plague; the Tully family’s friend Hadgi Abderrahman’s 104-day quarantine off Malta, and the doctor who fled with him’s method of treating the plague, learned from a Moorish woman, which “gained him great popularity in Malta.”Continue reading “Miss Tully: Letters from Tripoli during the plague epidemic 1785-6”