Endpiece: The plague returns

The plague

Albert Camus (1913-1960) was born in Algeria, which was then a French colonial possession. His father was killed in battle in World War I a year after Albert’s birth, leaving his family in poverty. Camus worked his way through the university of Algiers by doing odd jobs, but dropped out after a severe bout of tuberculosis. He then turned to journalism, writing for an anti-colonial newspaper in ...

Plague

Plague is a disease that has been present for thousands of years and described since the earliest medical accounts. It occurs today worldwide, and may present in a variety of clinical forms. Bubonic disease, pneumonic plague, and septicemic plague are seen in addition to a number of other less common manifestations. As an agent of bioterrorism,Yersinia pestis could pose an extreme threat if rel...

Anti-Plague Vaccine in the Treatment of Plague

venous injections of iodine in this disease has been recognized by previous workers, I used it as a routine measure, giving injections containing from 2 to 1? grs. In spite of these injections most patients showed severe constitutional disturbances within 48 hours of commencing treatment, with delirium and restlessness. Severe asthenia would set in about the third day of treatment, and the prog...

The Great Plague

'""pHERE was a certain apothecary, William Bogliurst by name, who was living in London in the year 1664. lie was a just and upright man, and, since he did not flee from the city during those days of pestilence, but remained instead to write an excellent account of it, we learn from him almost all that we know with accuracy regarding the Great Plague of 1664-1666, which ravaged especially the me...

The Plague Commission on Haffkine's Anti-Plague Inoculation