Malaria and Rome: A History of Malaria in Ancient Italy (64 page)

Athenaios
61, 282

89–90, 96, 153

Athens
167, 252

Anopheles claviger
43–4, 90

Atina
177

Anopheles elutus
(=
sacharovi
)
28

Atria
85

Anopheles gambiae
29–30, 44, 126

Atticus, T. Pomponius
131–2, 135, 267

Anopheles labranchiae
28, 33, 35–6, 44,

Attila
225

63, 68, 74, 84, 89–90, 95–6, 98,

Atto
231

174, 193, 200, 239, 270

Augustine, St.
52, 86, 224

Anopheles maculipennis
43–4, 84, 89–90,

Augustus, emperor
79, 110, 185, 188,

96

196, 247, 249, 256

332

Index

Aventine, hill
209

Campus Martius
209, 215

canals
69, 74–5, 174

Baccelli, Guido
9, 74, 128, 139, 206,

cancer
150

214, 220

Canusium
265

Baccano
246

Capua
181, 250

Barbatus, St.
262

Caracalla, emperor
52

barley
150, 255

Caracupa (Valvisciolo)
107

Bassano, Lago di
172

Carthage
39, 90, 178, 197, 200, 253

bedbugs
134

Casalguidi
60

Bede
158

Cascina
136

beech tree
106, 176

Casentino
162

Bekaa Valley
32

Cassino, Monte
112

Belisarius
86, 182

Cassiodorus, M. Aurelius
190

Beneventum
262–3

Cassius Dio
109–10, 156

Benivieni, Antonio
12

Castel Fusano
197, 269–70

Berti, Tito
169–70

catalepsy
220

Bibbona
73, 255

Cato the Elder
15, 17, 55, 192, 219,

Bignami, Amico
21, 130, 139, 220

244–5

Biondi, Ernesto
234

Celli, Angelo
3–4, 14, 19, 48–9, 55, 57,

birds
7, 24, 29, 50

64, 72, 78, 87–8, 147, 198, 208,

birthweight, low
126

213, 226, 229, 240–1, 248,

blackwater fever
18

256–60

blood
7, 11–12, 15–16, 25, 28–9, 36–7,

Celsus, A. Cornelius
12, 14–20, 121,

98, 125, 127–30, 141–3, 147, 154–5,

124, 132, 228, 276

169, 218–19, 276

Celsus, Iuventius
79

Bolsena, Lago di
69

Cethegus, M. Cornelius
75, 185–7

bonifications
75, 81, 88, 112, 168, 200,

Ceylon
121

234, 280

childhood
36, 82–3, 98, 124, 126, 129,

Bracciano, Lago di
69, 246

166, 199, 223–4

Britain
101, 151, 156–7, 160

China
29, 48–9, 55

bronchitis
136

Chiusi
69, 100

breastfeeding
124

chloroquine
200

brucellosis
10

cholera
128

Brundisium (Brindisi)
182, 266–7

Chrysippus
245

Bruttium
109

Cicero, M. Tullius
50, 53, 55, 76, 131,

Burundi
118

189, 201, 214, 219, 236, 245, 257,

266–7

Caelian, hill
206

Ciminian Forest
104–5

Caere
200

cinchona
48, 153, 202, 220

Caesar, Julius
4, 71, 188, 226, 266

Ciociaria
60

Calabria
74, 116, 161

Circeii
69–70, 106–8, 177–8, 189, 249,

Caligula, emperor
113

253

Calore, river
262

Circeo, Monte
106–7, 169, 171, 184–5

Cambridgeshire
176

circumsporozoite protein
25

Camarina
38

Circus Maximus
281

Camillus, M. Furius
201

Cisterna
69, 177, 234

Campania
44, 69, 85, 181, 250, 264,

Città di Castello
197

278

Claudius, emperor
71–2

Index

333

climate
19, 28–9, 33, 36, 72, 101–3,

Dionysius of Halicarnassus
40, 109,

106, 132, 138, 146, 151, 165, 192,

250

195, 237, 249, 270

diseases,
see individual entries

Colin, Léon, 209, 212–13

Domitian, emperor
171, 257

Collesalvetti
43

Domitius Apollinaris
197

Collevecchio
119–20

domuscultae
260

Collodi, Perinto
73

Donatus, Alexander
209, 226, 259

colmatage
183

Doni, Giovanni, 64, 75, 81, 83, 96, 107,

Colosseum
213

156, 174, 177, 191–2, 204, 208–9,

Columella, L. I. Moderatus
61, 245

212, 262, 278

Coluzzi, Mario
30, 49, 68, 88, 94, 200

dragonfly
69

Constantine, emperor
231

dragons
231–4

contagion
49–50, 152–3, 245

drainage
70–7, 94, 100, 109, 112–13,

Corciano
261

181, 185–8, 206, 208, 261

Corcyra (Corfu)
97–8

dropsy
135–7, 258

Cori
186

Dryopithecus
apes
27

Corioli
180

Duffy locus
25, 28

Cornaro, Marco
7

dysentery
71, 121, 124, 127–8

Corneto (Tarquinia)
63

Corsica
44, 106

Corbellini, Gilberto
7, 84

Eboli
242

Cosa (Ansedonia)
69, 198, 250–1

economy
61, 179, 181, 238, 244–6,

Croton
155, 161

251–3

Crotonese
64, 161

eggs:

Culex
mosquitoes
29, 68–9, 81, 235

chicken
134, 142

Culex
(poem)
238

locust
183

Cumae
85

mosquito
43, 87

cuniculi
76–8, 179, 181, 214

Egypt
30–4, 53, 85, 91–2, 282

einkorn (
Triticum monococcum
)
150

Dante Alighieri
100, 133, 198

elephants
236

DDT
47, 94, 96, 112

embankments
94–5

Dead Sea
32

emmer (
Triticum dicoccum
)
150

Decemnovium
182, 191

Empedocles
73

Decius
190

England
71, 78, 91, 118, 138, 151–66,

deforestation
72, 90, 103, 105–9, 112,

176, 180, 197, 205, 208, 271, 279

182–3

epidemiology
23, 132, 156, 215, 223,

Demaratus of Corinth
144

256

Demetrius
108

epilepsy
50, 139

Denderah
282

Epirus
9, 249, 253

dengue fever
10, 89

Epstein-Barr virus
139

Dennis, George
180

erythrocytes
11, 18, 25, 28, 37–8, 125,

Diamantina
89

142–3, 165, 218, 221, 329

diarrhoea
124, 126

Esquiline, hill
213–14

diet
35, 141–51

estatatura
280

dinosaurs
7

Etruria,
see
Tuscany

Diocletian, emperor
208

Eudemus
135

Diodorus Siculus
181

Eustathius, commentator

Diogenes Laertius
38

on Homer
21

334

Index

Faesulae
278

Genoa
138

Falleroni, Domenico
43, 45, 267

Gervase
159, 224

Favorinus, sophist
134–5

Ghetto, Jewish in Rome
210–11

Felix, M. Minucius
50

Ginanni, Francesco
81–3

Ferrara
83, 89, 122, 142, 278

glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase

fertility, human
118, 127, 151, 162–3,

(G6PD) deficiency
39, 68, 127,

242, 277

143–5

fever:

Godfrey of Bouillon
226

as a divinity
50–4

Godfrey of Viterbo
224

as an immune response
13

Gracchus, Tiberius and Gaius
93, 95,

see also
blackwater fever; dengue

196, 248, 253

fever; quartan fever; quotidian

Graviscae
192–8, 244, 250, 266

fever; relapsing fever; semitertian

Greece
12–14, 18, 20–3, 31–5, 38, 44,

fever; tertian fever; typhoid fever;

91, 116, 136, 144, 160, 200, 249,

typhomalarial fever; yellow

252, 279

fever

Gregorovius
57, 147–8, 163, 173–4

Fienili di Sonnino
190

Gregory I the Great, pope
230, 273

Fiora, river
113

Gregory of Tours
54, 157

fish
69–70, 95, 146

Grassi, Battista
43, 49–50, 72, 87

fishponds, artificial
69–70

Grmek, Mirko Drazen
4, 13, 18–19,

Fiumicino
94, 98, 280

22–3, 35–6, 38, 49, 143, 230

floods
86, 109–10, 202, 214

Grosseto
2–3, 40–1, 60, 63, 69, 108–9,

Florence
22, 100, 109, 117, 124–5, 140,

111–12, 116–18, 121–3, 125, 128,

142, 180, 203, 208, 251, 272–3,

140, 142–3, 155, 160–5, 180, 205,

276, 284

233–4, 269, 271, 273, 280, 283

Foggia
266

Guyana
121, 136

Forum, Roman
76, 109, 150, 213, 217

Forum Appii
187

Habitancum (Risingham)
157

Fossombroni, Vittorio, 100

Hadrian, emperor
71, 157

Fracastoro, Girolamo, 122

Hadrian III, pope
183

François, Alessandro
199

haemoglobin
18, 30, 143, 165

Franklin, Benjamin
252

Hamilton, Robert
152

Frederick Barbarossa
224, 227

Hamilton, W. D.
130

Fregenae
87

Hannibal
13, 246, 249, 264

Frontinus
229

harvest
21–2, 152, 168, 231, 255–6, 267

Fucécchio
260

Hawaii
7

Fucino, Lago di
71–2

heart disease
130, 150

Herculaneum
10

Galen
14, 17–20, 48–9, 54, 86, 117,

Herodian
75, 126, 134, 137, 156, 276

121, 135–6, 140, 156, 189, 209,

Herodotus
91–2, 282

218, 222–3, 229, 258–9, 276

Hesiod
20

Galera
57, 94

Hippocrates
18–19, 50, 222

gametocyte
33, 98, 329

hippopotamus
32

gardens
112, 211, 229, 242

HIV
139

gastro-intestinal diseases
62, 123–9,

Holland
91, 157

162

Homer
20–1

Gaza
30

Honorius IV, pope
54

Gellius, Aulus
135

Horace
73, 181, 188, 217, 228

Index

335

Horton Hospital, Epsom
11, 33, 35,

lethargy
220–1, 231

38, 131, 155, 202

leucocytosis
129

hospitals,
see individual entries

Levi, Carlo
141, 236, 242

houses
55, 63, 91, 95–8, 212, 216, 280,

life-expectancy
1, 3, 52, 83, 125, 127,

282

141, 143, 154–66, 218, 254, 257,

Hugh of Evesham, cardinal
159

269–72, 278, 283

hyperostosis, porotic
31, 92, 141

life-tables
1–2, 160–4, 166–7, 277–8,

hypnozoites
329

283–4

Liguria
74, 255

Icatidas
134

Lithika
, Orphic
20

immunity
10, 16, 36–8, 42, 52, 64,

Livorno
10, 43

82–3, 98, 119, 124–7, 147, 155,

Livy
41, 105, 178–9, 183, 185–7, 201–2,

198, 223–4, 226

218, 236, 249, 252

impluvium
95–6

locusts
183

influenza
9–10, 133

London
20, 29, 138, 152, 273

Innocent III, pope
148

Longula
178

Innocent IV, pope
119

lucerne
238

India
38, 49, 95, 142, 166, 200, 202

Lucilius
192

Isola Tiberina
211, 281

Lucretius
61, 220

Lugnano in Teverina
67–8, 145, 233