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John Winthrop’s Lecture on Earthquakes (1755) and “Pestilential Distempers” Caused by Environmental Disruption

John Winthrop, A lecture on earthquakes; Read in the Chapel of Harvard-College in Cambridge, N.E. November 26th 1755. On Occasion of the great earthquake which shook New-England the Week before (Boston: Printed and Sold by Edes & Gill, at their Printing-Office next to the Prison in Queen-Street, 1755)

Harvard University Archives, HUC 8755.295

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Networks of Information and Infection: Documenting the Plague in 18th-Century Aleppo

Patrick Russell, A Treatise of the Plague: Containing an Historical Journal and Medical Account of the Plague, at Aleppo, in the Years 1760, 1761, and 1762: Also, Remarks on Quarantines, Lazarettos, and the Administration of the Police in times of Pestilence: To Which Is Added, an Appendix, Containing Cases of the Plague and an Account of the Weather during the Pestilence Season (London: Printed for G.G. J. and J. Robinson, 1791)

Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Rare Books 1.Msp.1791.5

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The Syphilitic Image: On “The Metamorphosis of Syphilis” in Marco Aurelio Severino’s De recondita abscessuum natura

Marco Aurelio Severino, De recondita abscessum, libri VIII…, 2nd ed. (Frankfurt: Caspar Rotelius for Johannes Beyer, 1643).

Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Rare Books 23.F.46

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