Author | Spinage, C. A. author |
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Title | Cattle Plague [electronic resource] : A History / by C. A. Spinage |
Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2003 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8901-7 |
Descript | XXI, 765 p. online resource |
I Introduction and Background -- 1. The Nature of Cattle Plague or Rinderpest -- 2. Species Affected and Geographical Distribution -- 3. The Seat of Infection -- 4. Rinderpest and the Panspermatists: Theories Origin of Diseases -- II The History of Rinderpest in Europe -- 5. Rinderpest in History from Ancient Egypt to the 17th Century -- 6. Saint Herbot Sleeps: The 18th-century Ravages in Europe -- 7. Rinderpest Reaches Britain Again -- 8. From Seven Years War to Crimean War: A Century of Devastation Continues -- 9. The Second Great Plague in Britain -- 10. The Final European Outbreaks -- III Control Measures, Legislation, and Effects -- 11. Arguments and Enmities: Simonds and Gamgee -- 12. Legal Measures of Prevention in the 18th Century -- 13. Legal Measures after the 18th Century tc -- 14. The Royal Commission, Legislative Failure, Insurance, and Government Actions in 19th-century Britain -- 15. Political, Economic, and Social Effects -- IV Cures and Remedies -- 16. The Search for a Cure: Desperate Diseases Require Desperate Remedies -- 17. Remedies in the 19th century -- 18. The Search for a Cure Continued. Inoculation and Vaccination -- 19. The Breakthrough in Africa -- V The History of Rinderpest in Asia and Africa -- 20. Rinderpest in India -- 21. India and the East -- 22. The Great African Rinderpest Panzootic -- 23. The Panzootic Reaches South Africa. March to December 1896 -- 24. The Continuance of Rinderpest in South Africa. 1897 to 1905 -- 25. Rinderpest in Africa in the 20th Century -- 26. Continuation of Rinderpest in Africa -- 27. Economic and Social Effects in Africa -- 28. The Effect of the Panzootic on African Game -- 29. Specific Effects on African Game -- 30. Did Rinderpest Exist in Africa Before the Panzootic? -- Appendix I. Regulations Now in Force in the German Empire in Regard to Measures Against Rinderpest -- Appendix II. Instructions and Decrees Issued by Carl, Duke of Braunschweig and Lรผneburg, 1745โ82 -- Appendix III. Statutes, Orders in Council, and Proclamations Concerning Rinderpest in Britain and Ireland 1746โ1878 -- References