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Yellow fever : a worldwide history
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Title
Yellow fever : a worldwide history / S.L. Kotar and J.E. Gessler.
ISBN
9780786479191
0786479191
Publication
Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2017]
Physical Description
viii, 447 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Summary
"Drawing on firsthand accounts and contemporary sources, this book traces the history of the viral infection, yellow fever, that has claimed countless victims across the United States, Central America and Africa, and of the global effort to combat this challenging and deadly disease" -- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 19, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Yellow Fever : A Perspective
The Early Colonial Period
A Question of Quarantine
The American Plague
"Particulars of the Plague in Philadelphia"
Most Unhappy Consequences
The Controversies of Yellow Fever Continue to Rage
The "Great Epidemic" of 1798
Is Yellow Fever More Deadly Than the Plague?
The Repository of Knowledge
Daily Mortality Is Now More Considerable
The Baneful Effects of Yellow Fever
Corpses Still Animated : Yellow Fever, 1820-1829
"All the Evils Which Hell May Contain"
The "Dead Book"
New Orleans : A City of Desolation
"To the Manor Born"
The "Quarantine War" and the "Quarantine Armada"
Deluge of Yellow Fever in the South and Worldwide Epidemics
The American Un-Civil War Period, 1860-1866
Holding on Until the Other Jack (Frost) Says "Enough!"
"I Am Writing from the City of the Dead"
Quarantine and Avarice, 1870-1873
"Falling Like Leaves"
"The Grim Monster Still on His Path" : The Outbreaks of 1878
"We Are Almost Entirely Ignorant"
Mosquitoes and Germ Theories
Panama and Nicaragua : Two Canals, Two Views
Cuba and the "Patriotic Disease"
After War : Science and Sanitation
Into the 20th Century
Panama!
"America to Slay the World's Disease Germs"
Taking Steps Against a Deadly Enemy
Glossary.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Yellow Fever - history.
Epidemics - history.
Tropical Medicine - history.
Global Health - history.
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