Geschichte der Volksseuchen nach und mit den Berichten der Zeitgenossen, mit Berücksichtigung der Thierseuchen

more active at the present day; but both for the historian and the physician it is desirable to have at hand concise descriptions of the prevalence of epidemics in their chronological order. In the short space of 450 pages are crowded a vast mass of facts, gathered both from contemporary and modern writers. Thus the recent works of Jessopp and Gasquet are laid under contribution for the outlines of the Black Death in England and elsewhere, which the author identifies with the Oriental bubonic plague, and to which he devotes some forty pages. Numerous references to the authorities and literature of the