সংক্ষিপ্ত বিবরন : Physician Charles Creighton starts his investigation of diseases in Britain from the first British epidemic in 664 AD to 1666 when the Great Plague ended in this first volume of his History of Epidemics in Britain. The work is segmented Chronologically and on diseases, extending from Bede's journals of the plague of 664-684 to 'the French pox', at the same time sickness that erupted during sea voyages and in the first colonies. This book would benefit medical historians and to people who are interested in epidemiology.