Collected papers on epidemic diseases and plague

Six short Papers.

(1) BARTHELEMY, Rapport médical... sur les ravages de l'épidémie observée ...dans la Commune de Charbonnières-les-Vieilles. Riom, 1807. (8 ll. folio. 25½ x 17½ cm.).

Author's holograph MS. The last four leaves contain notes of cases in tabular form.

The epidemic appears to have been a form of influenza.

Purchased 1929. (57070D)

(2) DE Meo ipsius vivendi Modus [sic] in Tempore Pestis [1665]. Transcript of the original Latin with an English translation [c. 1920]. (8 ll. folio. 32 x 20½ cm.).

This is stated to have been 'copied from a MS. written on the blank leaves at the end of a copy of the 1642 Amsterdam edition of the Satires of Juvenal and Persius, with Thomas Farnaby's notes. It is by a Physician, and was probably written during the Plague in London in 1665.'

The present locality of the MS. is not known, and the Latinity of the title seems dubious.

Signed on the verso of the last leaf: 'C. Bompas. 12 Westbourne Terrace. [London] W.2', who is presumably the writer. (95400)

(3) DE sudore Anglico qui pluries affecit Anglos, semel i.e. 1529, Batavos, Germanos, Borussos ... habeo sequentes monographos [c. 1805] (2 ll. 4to. 20½ x 17½ cm.).

Modern vellum covers, stamped 'De Sudore Anglico.'

In his list, the anonymous (German?) compiler includes (Leaf 2v) C. C. Gruner's 'De sudore Anglico scriptores' first published in 1805.

Purchased 1912. (31282)

(4) EXPERIMENTS upon the transmission of Plague by fleas [1906]. (16 ll. folio. 26 x 20 cm.).

Only a fragment of the first leaf remains: some margins frayed. In typescript with some MS. additions and corrections, with numerous mounted extracts from the printed paper, which was published at Cambridge in the 'Journal of Hygiene,' 1906, pp. 425-482.

The fragment of the first leaf is inscribed 'Reports of Plague Investigation in India', and this item may possibly be a draft for a new edition, of which no record has been found.

From the Cantlie Papers.

Presented 1931. (89186)

(5) MAY (Aylmer William) [1874-1950]. The isolation of a para typhoid bacillus from a drinking-water supply. Johannesburg [1909] (1 l. + 13 ff. folio. 31 x 21 cm.).

In typescript with holograph additions and corrections.

Some of the leaves are only narrow strips.

This paper was published in the 'Journal of the Royal Institute of Hygiene', 1909.

The author obtained his M.D. at Trinity College, Dublin, in 1898, and was Principal Medical Officer for Northern Rhodesia 1908-1928. He served as Major in the R.A.M.C. both in the South African war 1899-1901 and in the First World War. [Cf. 'Who was Who', 1941-1950.]

From the Cantlie Papers.

Presented 1931. (89186)

(6) PLAGUE. Statistics of Plague outbreaks since 1894 [to 1906] (13 ll. folio. 32 x 20½ cm., 28 x 21½ cm.). (72000)

• <persname>May, Aylmer William, 1874-1950, physician</persname>
• <persname>Barthelemy, -, fl 1807</persname>