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American plagues : lessons from our battles with disease
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- Creator
- Stephen H. Gehlbach
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- New York : McGraw-Hill, Medical Pub. Div., [2005]
- ©2005
- Physical Details
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- viii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780071437905, 0071437908
- OCLC
- ocm55008728
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Gunpowder and calomel : Benjamin Rush and the malignant yellow fever -- Doctors and ministers : smallpox in Boston, 1721 -- Noddle's Island experiment : Benjamin Waterhouse and vaccination -- Scourge of the Middle West : autumnal fever and Daniel Drake -- Improving the numbers : Lemuel Shattuck's report -- Adirondack cure : consumption and Edward Trudeau -- The beginning and the end : epidemic poliomyelitis -- A cancer grows : Edward R. Murrow and the cigarette -- Searching America's heart : the Framingham study --Continuing story : present plagues
Subjects
- Epidemics -- United States -- History.
- Epidemiology.
- Disease Outbreaks -- history -- United States.
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- Communicable Disease Control -- history -- United States.
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- Epidemiology -- history -- United States.
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