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The Tread Mill, 1822 CHAPTER 2. MEDICINE 51 Tapping for the Dropsy, 1732Death from Rabies, 1735 Cure for the Bloody Flux, 1736 Rabies Prevention:Killing the Dogs of Edinburgh, 1738 Birth Defects Explained, 1746 QuackCures, 1752 Cataract Surgery, 1754 Cutting for the Stone, 1754 Leeches forHeadache, 1762 Remedy for Bedbugs, 1764 Conditions in Private Madhouses, 1766The London Mortality Bill, 1767 Cure for Breast Cancer, 1768 Cure forTubercular Lung Hemorrhages, 1782 Experiment with Blood Transfusion, 1784Inoculation for Smallpox, 1787 George III and the Onset of Porphyria, 1788-89Samuel Ayscough's Method for Killing Black Beetles in London Kitchens, 1791Death of a Tippling Welshman, 1793 Yellow Fever in Philadelphia, 1793 EdwardJenner's Vaccination for Smallpox Announced, 1798-99 Death by Burning, 1799Death of Queen Caroline, 1821 Cholera Epidemic, 1831 CHAPTER 3. SCIENCE,NATURAL HISTORY, AND ARCHAEOLOGY 99 Supposed Capture of a Merman, 1737 TheExcavations at Herculaneum, 1743-49 George Smith of Wigton, Cumbria:Traveler, Naturalist, and Proponent of Romanticism of the Sublime, 1748-51Benjamin Franklin and the Lightning Rod, 1750 Benjamin Franklin's Experimentwith the Kite and the Key, 1752 The Gregorian Calendar Reform and theGlastonbury Thorn, 1752-53 The Lisbon Earthquake, 1755 Halley's Comet,1756-59 Captain James Cook's Voyage in the Endeavour, 1768-71 Rev. JohnDuncombe's "Curious, and... Non-Descript, Reptile,... Uncommonly Large andBeautiful," 1778 William Herschel's Discovery of Uranus ("The GeorgianPlanet"), 1781 First Balloon Flight in Britain, 1784 The Mutiny on theBounty, 1789 The Rosetta Stone, 1801-02 CHAPTER 4. PREACHING THE GOSPEL 147Suppression of Private Mass Houses, 1735-38 John Wesley's MissionaryActivities among the Chickasaws, 1736 George Whitefield's Ministry, 1739 TheDimensions and Capacity of Noah's Ark Described, 1749 Anti-Methodist Riots inNorwich, 1752 Consecration of Samuel Seabury, Bishop of Connecticut, 1784Robert Raikes and the Sunday School Movement, 1784 CHAPTER 5. THE DEBATES OFTHE SENATE OF LILLIPUT 175 The Fall of Sir Robert Walpole, 1741-42 CHAPTER 6.NEWS FROM AMERICA 191 Oglethorpe's Treaty with the Creek Nation, 1733 Visitof the Chief of the Yamacraw Tribe to George II, 1734 Two Views of Slavery inthe Colonies: Suppression of a Slave Uprising on Antigua, 1736; Start-upCosts of a South Carolina Indigo Plantation, 1755 Fire in Charleston, 1740Raising the Liberty Bell, 1753 Braddock Ambushed near Fort Duquesne, 1755 TheStamp Act, 1765-66 Lexington and Concord, 1775 George Washington's Receptionin Philadelphia en Route to His First Inauguration, 1789 Obituary for GeorgeWashington, 1799 CHAPTER 7. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION 229 The Fall of theBastille, 1789 The "October Days," 1789 The September Massacres, 1792 TheSentencing of Louis XVI, 1793 The Execution of Louis XVI, 1793 The Death ofRobespierre, 1794 The Battle of Trafalgar, 1805 CHAPTER 8. RIOTS, RADICALISM,AND REFORM 275 The Gordon Riots, 1780 The "Church and King" Riots [PriestleyRiots], 1791 The Peterloo Massacre, 1819 The Thistlewood Plot [Cato StreetConspiracy], 1820 The Reform Bill Riots in Bristol, 1831 CHAPTER 9. LITERARYJUDGMENTS 315 Sir John Fielding's War on The Beggar's Opera, 1773 "A Woman ofUncommon Talents": Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-98 "Such Abominable Trash asModern Novels," 1808 The Best-Selling Novel of Its Day: Hannah More's Coelebsin Search of a Wife, 1809 "Amusing, if Not Instructive": Jane Austen's Emma,1816 "No Ordinary Writer": Mary Shelley and Frankenstein, 1818 "An ArchangelRuined": Byron, The Bride of Abydos, Cain, and Don Juan, 1814-22 "We Ought asJustly to Regret the Decease of the Devil": The Death of Shelley, 1822BIBLIOGRAPHY 341