Get Well Soon

by Jennifer Wright

  Kohn, George Childs, ed. Encyclopedia of Plague and Pestilence: From Ancient Times to the Present. 3rd ed. New York: Facts on File, 2008.

  Maire, Brigitte, ed. “Greek” and “Roman” in Latin Medical Texts: Studies in Cultural Change and Exchange in Ancient Medicine. Leiden: Brill, 2014.

  Marcus Aurelius. The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. Edited by A. S. L. Farquharson. Oxford: Oxford University Press (Oxford World’s Classics), 2008.

  “Marcus Aurelius Biography.” Biography.com. http://www.biography.com/people/marcus-aurelius-9192657#challenges-to-his-authority.

  Mattern, Susan P. Galen and the Rhetoric of Healing. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.

  McLynn, Frank. Marcus Aurelius: A Life. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2009.

  Niebuhr, Barthold Georg. Lectures on the History of Rome: From the First Punic War to the Death of Constantine. 1844. E-source courtesy of Getty Research Institute. https://archive.org/details/historyofrome01nieb.

  Phang, Sara Elise. The Marriage of Roman Soldiers (13 B.C.–A.D. 235): Law and Family in the Imperial Army. New York: Trustees of Columbia University, 2001.

  Raoult, Didier, and Michel Drancourt, eds. Paleomicrobiology: Past Human Infections. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2008.

  “Roman Freedmen.” Quatr.us. 2016. http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/romans/people/freedmen.htm#.

  Scheidel, Walter. “Marriage, Families, and Survival in the Roman Imperial Army: Demographic Aspects.” Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics, Stanford University, 2005. https://www.princeton.edu/~pswpc/pdfs/scheidel/110509.pdf.

  Sheppard, John George. The Fall of Rome and the Rise of the New Nationalities: A Series of Lectures on the Connections Between Ancient and Modern History. New York: Routledge, 1892. University of Toronto, Robarts Library archives, https://archive.org/details/fallofromeriseof00shepuoft.

  Tacitus. Complete Works of Tacitus. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964.

  Thatcher, Oliver J., ed. The Library of Original Sources. Vol. 4, Early Mediaeval Age. 1901. Reprint, Honolulu: University Press of the Pacific, 2004.

  Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. Translated by Richard Crawley. New York: Dutton, 1910.

  Vesalius, Andreas. On the Fabric of the Human Body. Translated by W. F. Richardson and J. B. Carman. San Francisco: Norman, 1998–2009.

  Bubonic Plague

  Aberth, John. From the Brink of the Apocalypse: Confronting Famine, War, Plague and Death in the Later Middle Ages. London: Routledge, 2001.

  Alden, Henry Mills, ed. “The Great Epidemics.” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, June to November 1856. Internet Archive 2013. https://archive.org/details/harpersnew13harper.

  Bailey, Diane. The Plague (Epidemics and Society). New York: Rosen, 2010.

  Benedictow, Ole. J. “The Black Death: The Greatest Catastrophe Ever.” History Today 55, no. 3 (March 2005). http://www.historytoday.com/ole-j-benedictow/black-death-greatest-catastrophe-ever.

  “Black Death.” History website. http://www.history.com/topics/black-death.

  “The Black Death.” BBC Bitesize Key Stage 3 website. http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/history/middle_ages/the_black_death/revision/5/.

  “The Black Death.” In SlideShare, July 15, 2008. http://www.slideshare.net/guest13e41f/black-death-514058.

  Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Decameron. Translated by John Payne. New York: Walter J. Black, 2007. Project Gutenberg e-Book. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/23700/23700-h/23700-h.htm.

  Cantor, Norman F. In The Wake of the Plague. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.

  Deary, Terry. Horrible History: The Measly Middle Age. Scholastic, 2015.

  “The Flagellants’ Attempt to Repel the Black Death, 1349.” EyeWitness to History.com. 2010. http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/flagellants.htm.

  Gottfried, Robert S. The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe. New York: Free Press, 1983.

  Haydn, Terry, and Christine Counsell, eds. History, ICT and Learning in the Secondary School. London: Routledge, 2003.

  Kallen, Stuart A. Prophecies and Soothsayers (The Mysterious & Unknown). San Diego: Reference Point Press, 2011.

  Kelly, John. The Great Mortality. New York: HarperCollins, 2005. Kindle edition.

  Leasor, James. The Plague and the Fire. Thirsk: House of Stratus, 2001.

  Mitchell, Linda E., Katherine L. French, and Douglas L. Biggs, eds. “The Ties that Bind: Essays in Medieval British History in Honor of Barbara Hannawalt.” History: The Journal of the Historical Association, 96, no. 324 (September 9, 2011). http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-229X.2011.00531_2.x/abstract.

  “Myths About Onion.” National Onion Association website. http://www.onions-usa.org/faqs/onion-flu-cut-myths.

  “Newcomers Facts.” National Geographic Channel, October 25, 2013. http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/meltdown/articles/newcomers-facts/.

  “Nostradamus.” Encyclopedia of World Biography. http://www.notablebiographies.com/Ni-Pe/Nostradamus.html.

  “Nostradamus Biography.” Biography.com. http://www.biography.com/people/nostradamus-9425407#studies.

  “Nostradamus Was the Most Famous Plague Doctor During Black Death Years.” Pravda Report, pravda.ru website, February 9, 2009. http://english.pravda.ru/science/earth/09-02-2009/107080-nostradamus_black_death-0/.

  Pahl, Ronald Hans. Creative Ways to Teach the Mysteries of History. Vol. 1. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Education, 2005.

  “Petrarch on the Plague.” The Decameron Web, a project of the Italian Studies Department’s Virtual Humanities Lab at Brown University, February 18, 2010. http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/plague/perspectives/petrarca.php.

  “Plague—Fact Sheet No. 267.” World Health Organization media website, November 2014. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs267/en/.

  “Rat-Shit-Covered Physicians Baffled by Spread of Black Plague.” Onion, December 15, 2009. http://www.theonion.com/article/rat-shit-covered-physicians-baffled-by-spread-of-b-2876.

  Roberts, Russell. The Life and Times of Nostradamus. Hockessin, DE: Mitchell Lane, 2008.

  Ross, Scarlett. Nostradamus for Dummies. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2005.

  Slavicek, Louise Chipley. Great Historic Disasters: The Black Death. New York: Chelsea House, 2008.

  Trendacosta, Katherine. “The ‘Science’ Behind Today’s Plague Doctor Costume.” iO9blog. October 19, 2015. http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-science-behind-todays-plague-doctor-costume-1737404375.

  Wilson, Ian. Nostradamus: The Man Behind the Prophecies. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2002.

  Dancing Plague

  Backman, E. Louis. Religious Dances. Translated by E. Classen. Alton, UK: Dance Books, 2009.

  Berger, Fred K. “Conversion Disorder.” Medline Plus. October 31, 2014. https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000954.htm.

  “Cases of Mass Hysteria Throughout History.” Onlineviralnews.com. September 18, 2015. http://onlineviralnews.com/cases-of-mass-hysteria-throughout-history/.

  “Contagious Laughter.” WYNC RadioLab. Season 4, episode 1. http://www.radiolab.org/story/91595-contagious-laughter/.

  Dominus, Susan, “What Happened to the Girls in Le Roy.” New York Times Magazine. March 7, 2012. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/magazine/teenage-girls-twitching-le-roy.html.

  Kramer, Heinrich, and James (Jacob) Sprenger. Malleus Maleficarum. 1486. Translated by Montague Summers in 1928. Digireads.com. 2009.

  Mendelson, Scott. “Conversion Disorder and Mass Hysteria.” Huffpost Healthy Living, February 2, 2012. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-mendelson-md/mass-hysteria_b_1239012.html.

  Midelfort, H. C. Erik. A History of Madness in Sixteenth-Century Germany. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.

  Paracelsus. Essential Theoretical Writings. Edited by Wouter J. Hanegraaff. Translated by Andrew Weeks. Leiden: Brill, 2008. http://selfdefinition.org/magic/Paracelsus-Essential-Theoretical-Writings.pdf.

  Sebastian, Simone.
“Examining 1962’s ‘Laughter Epidemic.’” Chicago Tribune, July 29, 2003. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2003-07-29/features/0307290281_1_laughing-40th-anniversary-village.

  Siegel, Lee. “Cambodians’ Vision Loss Linked to War Trauma.” Los Angeles Times, October 15, 1989. http://articles.latimes.com/1989-10-15/news/mn-232_1_vision-loss.

  “St. Vitus’ Dance.” BBC Radio 3. September 7, 2012. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018h8kv.

  Waller, John. The Dancing Plague: The Strange, True Story of an Extraordinary Illness. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2009.

  ______. “In a Spin: The Mysterious Dancing Epidemic of 1518.” Science Direct, September 2008. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160932708000379.

  Smallpox

  Bell, John. Bell’s British Theatre, Consisting of the Most Esteemed English Plays. Vol. 17. 1780. Google digital from the library of Harvard University. https://archive.org/details/bellsbritishthe19bellgoog.

  Bingham, Jane. The Inca Empire. Chicago: Reed Elsevier, 2007.

  Boseley, Sarah. “Lancet Retracts ‘Utterly False’ MMR Paper.” Guardian, February 2, 2010. http://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/feb/02/lancet-retracts-mmr-paper.

  Buckley, Christopher. But Enough About You. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2014.

  Campbell, John. “An Account of the Spanish Settlements in America.” 1762. Hathi Trust Digital Library. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008394522.

  Clark, Liesl. “The Sacrificial Ceremony.” NOVA. November 24, 1998. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/sacrificial-ceremony.html.

  “The Conquest of the Incas—Francisco Pizarro.” PBS.org. http://www.pbs.org/conquistadors/pizarro/pizarro_flat.html.

  Cook, Noble David. Born to Die: Disease and New World Conquest, 1492–1650. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

  Deer, Brian. “Exposed: Andrew Wakefield and the MMR-Autism Fraud.” briandeer.com. http://briandeer.com/mmr/lancet-summary.htm.

  ______. “MMR Doctor Given Legal Aid Thousands.” Sunday Times, December 31, 2006. http://briandeer.com/mmr/st-dec-2006.htm.

  Diamond, Jared M. Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: Norton, 1997.

  ______. “Episode One: Out of Eden—Transcript.” Guns, Germs and Steel. ETV Education, PBS.org. 2016 http://www.pbs.org/gunsgermssteel/show/transcript1.html.

  “The Fall of the Aztecs—December 1520: Siege, Starvation & Smallpox.” PBS.org. http://www.pbs.org/conquistadors/cortes/cortes_h00.html.

  “Frequently Asked Questions about Smallpox Vaccine.” Centers of Disease Control and Prevention. http://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/smallpox/vaccination/faq.asp.

  Gordon, Richard. The Alarming History of Medicine. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1993.

  Grob, Gerald N. The Deadly Truth: A History of Disease in America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005.

  Gross, C. P., and K. A. Sepkowitz. “The Myth of the Medical Breakthrough: Smallpox, Vaccination, and Jenner Reconsidered.” International Journal of Infectious Diseases, July 1998. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/13454451_Gross_CP_Sepkowitz_KAThe_myth_of_the_medical_breakthrough_smallpox_vaccination_and_Jenner_reconsidered_Int_J_Infect_Dis_354-60.

  Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

  Halsall, Paul. “Modern History Sourcebook: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762): Smallpox Vaccination in Turkey.” Fordham University, July 1998. http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/montagu-smallpox.asp.

  “Human Sacrifice and Cannibalism in the Aztec People.” Michigan State University, Rise of Civilization course, April 21, 2013. http://anthropology.msu.edu/anp363-ss13/2013/04/21/human-sacrifice-and-cannibalism-in-the-aztec-people/.

  Jakobsen, Hanne. “The Epidemic That Was Wiped Out.” ScienceNordic, April 14, 2012. http://sciencenordic.com/epidemic-was-wiped-out.

  Jongko, Paul. “10 Ancient Cultures That Practiced Ritual Human Sacrifice.” TopTenz website: July 29, 2014. http://www.toptenz.net/10-ancient-cultures-practiced-ritual-human-sacrifice.php-.

  Kramer, Samantha. “Aztec Human Sacrifice.” Michigan State University, Great Discoveries in Archaeology course, April 25, 2013. http://anthropology.msu.edu/anp264-ss13/2013/04/25/aztec-human-sacrifice/.

  MacQuarrie, Kim. The Last Days of the Incas. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2007.

  Mann, Charles C. “1491.” Atlantic, March 2002. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/03/1491/302445/.

  “Measles.” Media Center—Fact Sheet. World Health Organization. March 2016. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs286/en/.

  Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. “Lady Mary Wortley Montagu on Small Pox in Turkey [Letter].” Annotated by Lynda Payne. Children and Youth in History. Item #157. https://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/primary-sources/157.

  Oldstone, Michael B. A. Viruses, Plagues and History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. The New York Times on the Web—Books. https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/o/oldstone-viruses.html.

  Osler, William. “Man’s Redemption of Man.” American Magazine, November 2010 to April 1911. Digitized by Google. https://books.google.com/books?id=I-EvAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA251&lpg=PA251&dq=Here+I+would+like+to+say+a+word+or+two+upon+one+of+the+most+terrible+of+all+acute+infections,+the+one+of+which+we+first+learned+the+control+through+the+work+of+Jenner.+A+great+deal+of+literature+has+been+distributed&source=bl&ots=ijHGbb6zsT&sig=FbS0JbRnrwolCKqaOtdRLKxSYeg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjoqqHooavMAhWHtYMKHU6yB3UQ6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=Here%20I%20would%20like%20to%20say%20a%20word%20or%20two%20upon%20one%20of%20the%20most%20terrible%20of%20all%20acute%20infections%2C%20the%20one%20of%20which%20we%20first%20learned%20the%20control%20through%20the%20work%20of%20Jenner.%20A%20great%20deal%20of%20literature%20has%20been%20distributed&f=false.

  Pringle, Heather. “Lofty Ambitions of the Inca.” National Geographic, April 2011. http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/04/inca-empire/pringle-text/1.

  Riedel, Stefan. “Edward Jenner and the History of Smallpox and Vaccination.” Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings, January 2005. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1200696/.

  Rotberg, Robert I., ed. Health and Disease in Human History. A Journal of Interdisciplinary History Reader. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1953.

  Salcamayhua, Don Juan. “An Account of the Antiquities of Peru.” Sacred-Texts.com. http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/inca/rly/rly2.htm.

  Shuttleton, David E. Smallpox and the Literary Imagination, 1660–1820. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

  Stevenson, Mark. “Brutality of Aztecs, Mayas Corroborated.” Los Angeles Times, January 23, 2005. http://articles.latimes.com/2005/jan/23/news/adfg-sacrifice23.

  “The Story of … Smallpox—and Other Deadly Eurasian Germs.” From Guns, Germs and Steel. PBS.org. http://www.pbs.org/gunsgermssteel/variables/smallpox.html.

  “Timeline of Germ Warfare.” ABC News. http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=128610.

  “Variolation.” Project Gutenberg Self-Publishing Press. http://self.gutenberg.org/articles/variolation.

  Viegas, Jennifer. “Aztecs: Cannibalism Confirmed?” Tribe, January 28, 2005. http://history-geeks-get-chicks.tribe.net/thread/a46bf658-ce68-4840-93a6-c10f66302485.

  Whipps, Heather. “How Smallpox Changed the World.” Livescience website. June 23, 2008. http://www.livescience.com/7509-smallpox-changed-world.html.

  Wood, Michael. Conquistadors. BBC Digital. 2015. https://books.google.com/books?id=xKqFCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA90&lpg=PA90&dq=%22Cort%C3%A9s+stared+at+him+for+a+moment+and+then+patted+him+on+the+head.%22&source=bl&ots=eTKqshNJKf&sig=gtnbajA3wRSChgmOFWsJgRTdGPc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAWoVChMIivn7vODlxgIV1FmICh3E5QPM#v=onepage&q=smallpox&f=false.

  Syphilis

  Blackmon, Kayla Jo. “Public Power, Private Matters: The American Social Hygiene Association and the Policing of Sexual Health in the Progressive Era.” Thesis, University of Montana, Missoula, MT. May 2014. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-06262014-081201/unrestricted/publicpowerpr
ivatemattersblackmanthesisupload.pdf.

  Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, April 1818. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Library, 2009. https://books.google.com/books?id=res7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA554&lpg=PA554&dq=No+Nose+club+edinburgh+magazine&source=bl&ots=W4wo-3O32h&sig=uIMQaVaBbfUR2jhEGvRsl_GWZZ4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwijzYSmx57MAhVG3mMKHRQ9AkEQ6AEIMjAD#v=onepage&q=No%20Nose%20club%20edinburgh%20magazine&f=false.

  Chahal, Vickram. “The Evolution of Nasal Reconstruction: The Origins of Plastic Surgery.” Proceedings of the 10th Annual History of Medicine Days. University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, March 23–24, 2001. http://www.ucalgary.ca/uofc/Others/HOM/Dayspapers2001.pdf.

  Conrad, Lawrence I., Michael Neve, Vivian Nutton, Roy Porter, and Andrew Wear. The Western Medical Tradition: 800 BC to AD 1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

  “Diseases and Conditions: Syphilis.” Mayo Clinic. January 2, 2014. http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/syphilis/basics/symptoms/con-20021862.

  Eamon, William. The Professor of Secrets: Mystery, Medicine, and Alchemy in Renaissance Italy. Washington: National Geographic Society, 2010.

  Fitzharris, Lindsey. “Renaissance Rhinoplasty: The 16th-Century Nose Job.” The Chirurgeon’s Apprentice website. September 4, 2013. http://thechirurgeonsapprentice.com/2013/09/04/renaissance-rhinoplasty-the-16th-century-nose-job/#f1.

  Frith, John. “Syphilis—Its Early History and Treatment until Penicillin and the Debate on Its Origins.” Journal of Military and Veterans’ Health 20, no. 4 (). http://jmvh.org/article/syphilis-its-early-history-and-treatment-until-penicillin-and-the-debate-on-its-origins/.

  Hayden, Deborah. Pox: Genius, Madness and the Mysteries of Syphilis. New York: Basic Books, 2003.

  Hertz, Abraham, and Emanuel Lincoln. The Hidden Lincoln: From the Letters and Papers of William H. Herndon. New York: Viking Press, 1938.

  Jordan, Anne. Love Well the Hour: The Life of Lady Colin Campbell, 1857–1911. Leicester: Matador, 2010.

  Jung, C. G. Nietzsche’s Zarathustra: Notes of the Seminar given in 1934–1939. 2 vols. Edited by James L, Jarrett. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. E-book.

  Magner, Lois N. A History of Medicine. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1992.