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Rheumatic fever in America and Britain : a biological, epidemiological, and medical history
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- Creator
- Peter C. English
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [1999]
- ©1999
- Physical Details
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- xx, 257 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780813527109, 0813527104
- OCLC
- ocm40783852
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-236) and index.
- Pt. I. The emergence of rheumatic fever in the nineteenth century -- Ch. 1. The new face of rheumatism, 1798-1840 -- Ch. 2. Acute rheumatism and hospitals, 1840-1880 -- Ch. 3. Walter Butler Cheadle and the "typical case," 1880-1890 -- Pt. II. The clinical and scientific challenges of an evolving disease -- Ch. 4. Rheumatic fever as sepsis, 1890-1920 -- Ch. 5. Clinical Management, 1890-1925 -- Ch. 6. Allergy, heredity, environment, and the emergence of the streptococcus, 1925-1945 -- Pt. III. The disappearance of rheumatic fever in the twentieth century
- Ch. 7. From acute to chronic, 1925-1945 -- Ch. 8. At the bedside, 1925-1945 -- Ch. 9. Penicillin, cortisone, and heart surgery, 1945-1965 -- Ch. 10. The waning of rheumatic fever : molecular biology, epidemiology, and history, 1945-1965
Subjects
- Rheumatic fever -- America -- History.
- Rheumatic fever -- Great Britain -- History.
- Rheumatic Fever -- history -- Great Britain.
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- Rheumatic Fever -- history -- United States.
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- Rheumatic Fever -- epidemiology -- Great Britain.
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- Rheumatic Fever -- epidemiology -- United States.
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- Rheumatic Fever -- physiopathology -- Great Britain.
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- Rheumatic Fever -- physiopathology -- United States.
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