Search Results - "cholera"

Cholera the biography / by Hamlin, Christopher, 1951-

Subjects: “…Cholera History 19th century.…”
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Cholera : a worldwide history / by Kotar, S. L.

Subjects: “…Cholera History.…”
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Africa in the time of cholera a history of pandemics from 1817 to the present / by Echenberg, Myron J.

Table of Contents: “…Zimbabwe, portrait of cholera in a failed state; 10. Cholera today.…”
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Epidemics, empire, and environments : cholera in Madras and Quebec City, 1818-1910 / by Zeheter, Michael

Subjects: “…Cholera India History 19th century.…”
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Public health and politics in the age of reform cholera, the state, and the Royal Navy in Victorian Britain / by McLean, David, 1949-

Subjects: “…Cholera Great Britain History 19th century.…”
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Mapping the Victorian social body by Gilbert, Pamela K.

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Galdos and medicine / by Stannard, Michael W., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Doctors and medicine in Galdos's madrid -- Epidemics: cholera, influenza and smallpox -- Endemic diseases: tuberculosis, syphilis, angina -- Alcoholism -- Madness -- Eye disease and blindness -- Childhood diseases -- Conclusions.…”
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Bad medicine doctors doing harm since Hippocrates / by Wootton, David, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Hippocrates and Galen -- Ancient anatomy -- The canon -- The senses -- Vesalius and dissection -- Harvey and vivisection -- The invisible world -- Counting -- Birth of the clinic -- The laboratory -- John Snow and cholera -- Puerperal fever -- Joseph Lister and antiseptic surgery -- Alexander Fleming and penicillin -- Doll, Bradford Hill, and lung cancer -- Death deferred.…”
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Russian colonial society in Tashkent 1865-1923 / by Sahadeo, Jeff, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Prologue: Tashkent before the Russians and the dynamics of conquest -- Ceremonies, construction, and commemoration -- Educated society, identity, and nationality -- Unstable boundaries: the colonial relationship and the 1892 "Cholera riot" -- Migration, class, and colonialism -- The predicaments of "progress," 1905-1914 -- War, empire, and society, 1914-1916 -- Exploiters or exploited? …”
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Colonial pathologies, environment, and Western medicine in Saint-Louis-du-Senegal, 1867-1920 by Ngalamulume, Kalala J.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Setting, themes, and conceptual perspectives -- The making of a colonial city -- "The white man's disease": the great yellow fever epidemics, 1867-1900 -- "The black man's disease": cholera and social inequality, 1868-1899 -- A conflict of interests among commerce, competing conceptions of public health, and civil liberties, 1882-1901 -- The scientific missions to Senegal and Brazil and the new paradigm, 1901-1912 -- Plague and violence in Saint-Louis-du-Senegal, 1917-1920 -- Conclusion.…”
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The Chouteaus first family of the fur trade / by Hoig, Stan

Table of Contents: “…Threshold to an empire -- Beyond the great river -- War and peace on the Missouri -- In a Spanish dungeon -- Scions to the fore -- Amid an Indian war -- A frontier in havoc -- The "Osage outfit" -- VIPs at the Verdigris -- Probing the plains -- To the prairies unknown -- Debt unto death -- Steamboats "to the mountains" -- A mile wide and six inches deep -- Deadly cargoes : whiskey and cholera -- Charles Chouteau at the helm -- Passions of war -- Requiems in retrospect -- Addendum : the Chouteau women -- Appendix A : Chouteau families and Osage offspring -- Appendix B : Chouteau-related trading posts -- Appendix C : Chouteau-involved Indian treaties.…”
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Plagues & poxes the impact of human history on epidemic disease / by Bollet, Alfred J.

Table of 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…”
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The path of mercy the life of Catherine McAuley / by Sullivan, Mary C.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- James McGauley's daughter 1778-1809 -- With the Callaghans at Coolock 1809-1822 -- The bequest and its use 1823-1826 -- New sorrows and responsibilities 1827-1829 -- The house of mercy 1829-1830 -- George's Hill at fifty-two 1830-1831 -- The beginnings and cholera 1832 -- Her "first-born" 1833 -- Daily life at Baggot Street 1834 -- Beliefs and motivations -- Short steps and great strides 1835 -- The traveling begins 1836 -- Suscipe 1837 -- Resilience 1838 -- Willie McAuley and his aunt December 1838 -- Loss and friendship -- Joys and sorrows mingled 1839 -- The rule goes to Rome early 1840 -- "100 miles to meet this cross" 1840 -- "The business of our lives" early 1841 -- "Providential guidance" May-August 1841 -- "'Tis come to a close" September-November 1841 -- Epilogue -- Appendix : a note on sources.…”
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