Contagionism Catches On

1. Introduction
Margaret DeLacy

2. Fever Theory and British Contagionism in the Mid-Eighteenth Century
Margaret DeLacy

3. Contagionism after 1750: John Pringle and James Lind
Margaret DeLacy

4. Animate Disease after 1750: Exanthemata Viva

Margaret DeLacy

5. Counting and Classifying Diseases: Contagion, Enumeration and Cullen’s Nosology
Margaret DeLacy

6. John Haygarth and the Campaign for Contagion
Margaret DeLacy

7. Contagionism, Politics and the Public in Manchester, 1780–1795
Margaret DeLacy

8. Institutionalizing Contagionism: The Manchester House of Recovery
Margaret DeLacy

Keywords: History, History of Britain and Ireland, Social History, History of Science