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Cattle plague : a history /

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Main Author: Spinage, C. A. (Clive A.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, [2003]
Subjects:
Rinderpest > history.
Cattle Diseases > history.
Veterinary Medicine > history.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction and background
  • The nature of cattle plague or rinderpest
  • Species affected and geographical distribution
  • The seat of infection
  • Rinderpest and the panspermatist : theories of the origin of diseases
  • The history of rinderpest in Europe
  • Rinderpest in history from ancient Egypt to the 17th century
  • Saint herbot sleeps : the 18th-century ravages in Europe
  • Rinderpest reaches Britain again
  • From Seven Years War to Crimean War : a century of devastation continues
  • The second great plague in Britain
  • The final European outbreaks
  • Control measures, legislation, and effects
  • Arguments and enmities : Simonds and Gamgee
  • Legal measures of prevention in the 18th century
  • Legal measures after the 18th century
  • The royal commission, legislative failure, insurance, and government actions in 19th-century Britain
  • Political, economic, and social effects
  • Cures and remedies
  • The search for a cure : desperate diseases require desperate remedies
  • Remedies for the 19th century
  • The search for a cure continued. Inoculation and vaccination
  • The breakthrough in Africa
  • The history of rinderpest in Asia and Africa
  • Rinderpest in India
  • India and the east
  • The great African rinderpest panzootic
  • The panzootic reaches South Africa. March to December 1896
  • The continuance of rinderpest in South Africa. 1897-1905
  • Rinderpest in Africa in the 20th century
  • Continuation of rinderpest in Africa
  • Economic and social effects in Africa
  • The effect of panzootic on African game
  • Specific effects on African game
  • 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 Lüneburg, 1745-82
  • Appendix III. Statutes, orders in council, and proclamations concerning rinderpest in Britain and Ireland 1746-1878