Malaria in Greek History

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In Category - Medical, Life Sciences, Antiquity

Authors: William Henry Samuel Jones, Edward Theodore Withington In Year : 1909

Book Language: English

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Preface. Disease-parasites competitors with man in the struggle for existence. The importance of this for historians.
Introduction. The nature and cause of malaria. Chief investigators since 1717.
Chapter I. Malaria in modern Greece, and its effects upon the inhabitants.
Chapter II. Malaria in the ancient non-medical writers.
Chapter III. Malaria in the ancient medical writers.
Chapter IV. The extent to which malaria was prevalent.
Chapter V. The effects of malaria upon the ancient Greeks.
Appendix. I. Home-life and the position of women possibly affected by the increase of malaria. II. Chief Greek diseases other than malaria.
Conclusion.
Additional Chapter. A difficulty in the history of Greek therapeutics explained by the "malaria theory"

This book is an attempt to correct and develop the theory proposed tentatively in the little work Malaria. Put briefly, this theory is as follows. In the struggle for existence man has competed, not only with his fellow-men, but also with wild animals and disease- parasites. The fight against beasts was decided long before the historic period, but parasites have always been, and still are, formidable opponents. Whole tribes have been wiped out by plague, kala-azar and measles; and even when the disease-parasite does not win such a decisive victory, it often weakens a nation so much that the latter falls an easy victim to its healthier neighbours. This volume will show how malaria played a part in the decline of the ancient Greeks, along with statistics presented from the Greek Anti Malarial League, and evaluation of malarial literature. (Summary by Leon Harvey)