Malaria and Rome: A History of Malaria in Ancient Italy (66 page)

339

gastro-intestinal diseases
129

Sardinia
22, 35, 38, 44, 90–3, 95, 100,

Horace Walpole in
9

118, 127, 143–4, 146, 162, 164–5,

interaction of malaria and smallpox

179, 200, 209, 223

124

Scansano
280

interaction of malaria and

Scaravazza, river
182

respiratory diseases
137–9

schizogony
11, 125

main discussion of malaria in

Scotland
22, 152, 156

201–32

seasonality
61, 63, 82, 165

Marchiafava’s and Celsus’

Selinus
38

descriptions of malaria
16–17

semitertian fever
14–15, 18–20, 54,

migration to
275–7

137, 209, 221–4, 258

multiple simultaneous infections

see also
Plasmodium falciparum

37–8

Seneca the Younger
50

plague
273–4

Septimius Severus, emperor
156

population
247, 270–81

Serenus, Quintus
133–4, 224

rickets
141

Sermoneta
58, 119–20, 175, 187, 219

rivalry of doctors
135

Servius, commentator on Virgil
177,

Sardinia exports grain to
92

192

seasonality of malaria
62

Setia (Sezze)
4, 55–7, 186, 188–9,

sewers
77

247–50, 253–4

tall buildings
96–7

Settefinestre
145, 253

timber requirements
108

Sezze,
see
Setia

Trevi water and mosquitoes
46

Sicily
36–9, 44, 52, 73, 92, 105, 143,

typhomalarial fever
128

200, 252

winds
74

sickle-cell anaemia
30, 39, 90

see also entries for individual hills and

Sidonius Apollinaris
64, 79

districts

Siena
33, 280

Romulus
50, 201

Sila Forest
109

Roselle
40, 108, 111

Silius Italicus
87, 189

Ross, Ronald
49–50

Sipontum
265

Rovigo
83

Sirius, the Dog-Star
21, 62

Rufus of Ephesus
97

Sixtus V, pope
75, 204

Rutilius Claudius Namatianus
197–8,

slavery
39, 61, 90, 145, 148, 157, 187,

250

196, 205, 231, 245, 247–58, 271

smallpox
10, 124, 276, 284

Sabato, river
262

Smyrna
140

Sabaudia
5

Soranus
141

Salerno
35, 158

Sorgoni, Angelo
66

salinity
78, 86–7, 89, 239

Spain
44, 85, 196, 242, 266, 276

salmonella
127

Sparta
179

Salpi
115, 214, 264–7

Spartacus
252

Salso
Lago, 264

Spina
85

Sambon, Louis
69, 74, 91, 96, 280

splenomegaly
16–17, 119

Samos
52

Spoleto
64, 190, 278

San Giovanni Hospital, Rome
16

sporogony
29, 62, 102, 151

Sangallo, Pietro Paolo da
46

sporozoites
33–4, 329

Santo Spirito Hospital, Rome
16, 148,

Stabiae
278

202, 215

Stia
162

340

Index

Strabo
41, 69–71, 79, 81, 85, 92, 95,

Torti, Francesco
128, 220

107–9, 179, 182, 188–9, 248–9,

Tournon, M. le Comte De
4, 180,

265

182, 209, 280

Strozzi, Alessandra Macinghi
153

trachoma
50, 141

Suessa Pometia
177

Trajan, emperor
71, 110, 182

Suetonius
3

transhumance
63, 238–40

Sulla
188

Trastevere
128, 213, 216

sweating sickness
208–9

Treia, river
113

Sybaris
13, 282

Treppio
3, 60, 118, 122, 161, 269, 271

Sydenham, Thomas
15, 19, 133, 152–3

Trevi, Fontana di
46

Sylvester I, pope
231–4

Trinitapoli
267

syphilis
11, 105, 122–4

trypanosomiasis
27

Syracuse
36–8

tuberculosis
2, 10, 50, 57, 117, 121,

Syria
22, 32, 254

135–9, 166, 284

Tungri
157

Tacitus
32, 71, 93, 96, 109–10, 225–6

Tuscania
103

Taranto
94

Tuscany
21, 33, 36, 39, 57, 60, 64, 69,

Tarquinia
33, 63, 192

70, 76, 89, 98, 103, 108–9, 113,

Tarquinius Priscus
77

136, 144, 150, 167, 180, 188–9,

Tarquinius Superbus
178

192–200, 234, 236, 246–8, 252–3,

Tavoliere
105, 255, 267

255, 257, 260, 262, 276, 278, 284

Terence
192

Tusculum
189, 245, 259

Terracina
108, 173, 177–8, 183–4, 189,

typhoid fever
9–10, 11, 121, 127–8, 133

238

typhomalarial fever
128, 216

tertian fever
9, 11, 14–16, 18–19, 37,

typhus
10, 117–18, 133

52–4, 62, 75, 121, 124, 130, 133,

149, 152–3, 156–7, 220–3

Ufente, river, 182, 190

see also
Plasmodium vivax

Umbria
64–8, 102, 105, 109, 145, 150,

Testaccio, Monte
206, 208, 213

197, 205, 230, 269, 278

thalassaemia
22, 32–3, 39, 82–3, 105,

Urban VIII, pope
202

127, 143–5

Theoderic
81, 190

Valchetta, river
113

Theophrastus
48, 62, 73, 105–6, 172,

Val di Chiana
43, 98–100, 183, 260

182

Valencia
154

Thucydides
36, 249

Valerius Maximus
50

Tiber, river
57, 67–8, 72, 74, 85–7,

Vallerano
140, 148

108–10, 122–3, 190, 192, 196–7,

Vanuatu
155–6

202, 204, 206, 209, 211, 214,

Varro, M. Terentius
55, 57, 60–1, 76,

216–17, 226, 228–30, 235, 257,

95, 97–8, 160, 255–6, 267, 278

259, 281

Vatican
51, 202, 206, 216, 226

Tibullus, Albius
21, 57, 113

Vegetius
279

Tifernum Tiberinum
105, 109, 197,

Veii (Isola Sacra)
40, 77–8, 103, 112,

205, 228, 269–71, 277–8, 282

201, 246

Tiro
219

Velabrum
214

Tivoli
87, 130

Velinus, Lake
76

Tommasi-Crudeli, Corradi
70, 97,

Velletri
77, 177–8

235–6, 280, 282

Venegas, Alonso Messias
202

Torelli, Luigi
236–7

Vespasian, emperor
3

Index

341

Vesuvius, Mt.
2, 57

Wagner-Jauregg, Julius
12

Vetulonia
40, 111

Walpole, Horace
9

Viareggio
43, 100

water-buffaloes
174, 240

Vibius Sequester
173

William of Malmesbury
227, 267

Villa Borghese
208, 213

winds
57,62, 73–4, 92, 98, 122–3, 138,

villas
55, 57, 63, 67, 69, 77, 87, 95, 111,

216, 228, 262–3, 270

145, 197, 205, 208, 212–13, 228–9,

wine
134, 147, 149, 241, 247–9, 254

243, 245, 253–60, 269

Wollaston
101

vines
101, 103, 243–4, 247–8, 259, 267

women
16, 38, 55, 67–8, 73, 124–7,

Virgil
20, 72, 177, 190, 257

132, 134

vitamins
141–2, 149

wormwood, see
Artemisia

Vitellius, emperor
225–6

viticulture,
see
vines

Xenophon
279

Vitruvius
57, 61, 79, 87, 185, 188, 265,

270, 278

Volsci
41–2, 178–80, 183, 185

yellow fever
10

Volterra
180

Volturno, river
33

Zacharias, pope
260

Vulci
197, 199

Zonaras
92