| Description |
xii, 411 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 384-397. |
| Contents |
The world of demons -- The wrath of God -- Metaphysical medicine -- The universe of natural law -- Primitive concepts of contagion -- The great teacher -- Fracastorius -- The conception of a contagium animatum -- The English hippocrates -- The last of the plague tractates -- The enigma of yellow fever -- The great sanitary awakening -- Three poineer epidemiologists -- Pasteur -- Pettenkofer-the last stand -- The concept of the carrier -- The insect host --The modes of infection. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Subject |
Epidemics.
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Epidemics. |
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Communicable diseases -- Prevention.
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Communicable diseases -- Prevention. |
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Medicine -- History.
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Medicine. |
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History. |
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