Cholera : a worldwide history /
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Author / Creator: | Kotar, S. L., author. |
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Imprint: | Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, c2014. |
Description: | viii, 397 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9970800 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1. "Water, water every where, Nor any drop to drink"
- 2. What Is Cholera? An Early Conundrum
- 3. The Immortal Sydenham
- 4. "The Cause of Pestilential Distempers"
- 5. Cholera Reaches the Pandemic Stage
- 6. The Second Cholera Pandemic: The Polish Insurrection, 1830-1831
- 7. The Second Cholera Pandemic: England and France, 1831
- 8. Sunderland: The Continuing Saga, 1831
- 9. Trials and Tribulations
- 10. England, 1832: "Who shall decide when doctors disagree?"
- 11. "From Our Correspondent-Foreign News"
- 12. Cholera in North America: "Imported by Immigrants"
- 13. The Scourge of God
- 14. "Choleraphobia"
- 15. "I do nor know who is dead and who is alive"
- 16. Mowed Down by Cholera
- 17. "Times arc no better, they are worse"
- 18. Windows, Potatoes and Avatars
- 19. Health and Sanitation
- 20. The Animalcular and the Fungoid Theories of Cholera
- 21. "A dose of magnesia is death"
- 22. "Cleanliness is the very vaccination of cholera"
- 23. "Our hopes that England may escape arc less sanguine"
- 24. Following the Pestilence: The United States Through the 1850s
- 25. "The Grand Experiment"
- 26. The Crimean War and Beyond
- 27. The Fourth Cholera Pandemic, 1863-1879
- 28. The Water We Drink
- 29. The Fifth Cholera Pandemic, 1881-1896
- 30. The Sixth Cholera Pandemic, 1899-1947
- 31. Cholera in the World War II Era
- 32. The Seventh Cholera Pandemic: "No country is safe from cholera"
- 33. Research Conducted During the Seventh Pandemic
- 34. The Resurgence of King Cholera
- 35. From Snow to Koch to DNA: The Next-to-Last Chapter
- Glossary
- Appendix I. Cures for Cholera Throughout the Ages s
- Appendix II. Cholera Morbus Mortality Statistics in the 19th Century: The Harvest of Death
- Chapter Notes
- Bibliography
- Index