Disasters right in old Lviv Lucja Charewiczowa [Lviv Library / 1930].

CONTENT.

Foreword ........................................ 5
Introduction ............................................ 7

I. Hygienic conditions of former Lviv .......... 11
Urban cramped conditions. - The type of housing. - The orderliness of the streets. - Attention of the city management to its cleanliness. - The perenniality of complaints about Lviv's mudslides. - Cobblestones, sewers and wells. - The relationship of epidemics to hygiene and poverty.

II. The Middle Ages. Plague and leprosy ................. 19
The march of the black death. - The first disasters. - The horror of r. 1467 - Patrons of the morose. - The essence of leprosy. - The care of lepers. - Their hospital and its transformation.

III. City action ............................. 31
The city's activities during periods of health emergencies. - Councils of Krakow. - Governance in a deserted city. - Sanitary ordinances. - Intelligence liaison of cities on the issue of pestilence.

IV. The 16th century and the first half of the 17th century to the Cossack wars ... 42
The silence of the first half versus the horror of the second half and the end of the 16th century. - The last oxen of the infected. - The black quadrennium and the great plague of 1623. - Its course and mood in the city.

V. Prevention and treatment ............... 54
Symptomata of infection. - Further disease symptoms. - General therapy. - Alembek's credo. - What to avoid and what to use in food. - Predictions of epidemics. - Witchcraft and sorcery.

VI. From the Cossack wars to the partition of 1772 ... 63
Plague a companion of wars and sieges in the second half of the 17th century. - The Great Plague of 1704. - Further recurrences of it. - Years of trepidation and anticipation of the danger of the plague.

The end of ...................................... 71
List of years of pestilence and epidemics in pre-partition Lviv .... 72
Footnotes ........................................ 73
List of figures ...................................... 86
Index ........................................... 87