Epidemics Resulting from Wars

by Friedrich Prinzing

CONTENTS

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INTRODUCTION		[1]
CHAPTER I
War Pestilences		[4]
CHAPTER II
The Time before the Thirty Years’ War		[11]
CHAPTER III
The Thirty Years’ War		[25]
CHAPTER IV
The Period between the Peace of Westphalia and the French Revolution		[79]
CHAPTER V
The Period between the French Revolution and Napoleon’s Russian Campaign		[92]
CHAPTER VI
The Epidemics of Typhus Fever in Central Europe following upon the Russian Campaign and during the Wars of Liberation (1812–14)		[106]
CHAPTER VII
From the Age of Napoleon to the Franco-German War		[165]
	1. The Russo-Turkish War of 1828–9	[165]
	2. The Crimean War (1854–6)	[170]
	3. The North American Civil War (1861–5)	[175]
	4. The Italian War of 1859	[183]
	5. The Danish War of 1864	[183]
	6. The German War of 1866	[184]
CHAPTER VIII
The Franco-German War of 1870–1, and the Epidemic of Small-pox caused by it		[189]
CHAPTER IX
From the Franco-German War to the Present Time		[286]
	1. The Russo-Turkish War of 1877–8	[286]
	2. The Boer War of 1899–1901	[290]
	3. The War in South-west Africa (1904–7)	[296]
	4. The Russo-Japanese War of 1904–5	[296]
	5. The Occupation of Tripoli by the Italians (1911)	[299]
	6. The War between Turkey and the Balkan States (1912–13)	[300]
CHAPTER X
Epidemics in Besieged Strongholds		[302]
	1. The Siege of Mantua (1796–7)	[304]
	2. The Siege of Danzig (1813)	[306]
	3. The Siege of Torgau (1813)	[311]
	4. The Siege of Mayence (1813–14)	[316]
	5. The Siege of Paris (1870–1)	[320]
	6. The Siege of Port Arthur (1904)	[324]
CONCLUSION		[328]
INDEX		[335]