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Plagues & poxes : the impact of human history on epidemic disease
Author
Title
Plagues & poxes : the impact of human history on epidemic disease / Alfred Jay Bollet.
ISBN
188879979X (pbk.)
Edition
2nd ed.
Published
New York : Demos, c2004.
Physical Description
1 online resource
Variant and related titles
Plagues and poxes
Internet Archive collection.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 07, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Bubonic plague: the prototype of pandemic disasters
The "little flies" that brought death, part 1: malaria or the burning ague
The "little flies" that brought death, part 2: yellow fever
Syphilis: the great pox
The smallpox
Cholera and the worldwide plagues of the nineteenth century
The great influenza pandemic of 1918-1919: President Woodrow Wilson and the Blitzkatarrh
Poliomyelitis: why did Franklin Delano Roosevelt get infantile paralysis as an adult?
Beriberi: an epidemic affecting rice-eaters
The pellagra epidemics: the three M's produce the four D's
Scurvy: the purpura nautica
Dying for a cigar? how about a cigarette?: smoking and epidemic cancer: a story of two presidents and a prince
Rickets: the English disease
Gout: the disease of good living
Anthrax: from woolsorter's disease to terrorism
Botulism: from bad food to terrorism
The SARS epidemic: a new disease retraces the experience with older diseases.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Disease Outbreaks - history.
Communicable Diseases - history.
Epidemiology - history.
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