American plagues, lessons from our battles with disease, Stephen H. Gehlbach
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American plagues, lessons from our battles with disease, Stephen H. Gehlbach
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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index present
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non fiction
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American plagues
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bibliography
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Stephen H. Gehlbach
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lessons from our battles with disease
Table Of Contents
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 Murrow and the cigarette -- Searching America's heart : the Framingham study -- A cure for complacency : HIV/AIDS -- Too little, too much : healthcare related infections -- Another kind of plague : measles and misinformation
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