Search Results - "smallpox"

Global health in Africa : historical perspectives on disease control /

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Global health in Africa : historical perspectives on disease control /

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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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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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Controversies in science and technology from maize to menopause /

Table of Contents: “…Antibiotics on the farm & in our food : the matter of antibiotic resistance & livestock -- Genetically modified crops and gene flow -- Women, hormone replacement therapy, and menopause -- Smallpox, bioterrorism, and public health.…”
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Controversies in science and technology from maize to menopause /

Table of Contents: “…Antibiotics on the farm & in our food : the matter of antibiotic resistance & livestock -- Genetically modified crops and gene flow -- Women, hormone replacement therapy, and menopause -- Smallpox, bioterrorism, and public health.…”
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Woman in the wilderness letters of Harriet Wood Wheeler, missionary wife, 1832-1892 / by Bunge, Nancy L.

Table of Contents: “…Preparation for the journey -- The reality of mission life -- Building a home alone in the forest -- Standing with the Ojibwe against removal and smallpox -- Struggling against sickness -- Harriet's children -- Life without a mission.…”
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Woman in the wilderness letters of Harriet Wood Wheeler, missionary wife, 1832-1892 / by Bunge, Nancy L.

Table of Contents: “…Preparation for the journey -- The reality of mission life -- Building a home alone in the forest -- Standing with the Ojibwe against removal and smallpox -- Struggling against sickness -- Harriet's children -- Life without a mission.…”
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Slavery, disease, and suffering in the southern Lowcountry by McCandless, Peter

Table of Contents: “…Combating pestilence -- "I wish that I had studied physick" -- "I know nothing of this disease" -- Providence, prudence, and patience -- Buying the smallpox -- Commerce, contagion, and cleanliness -- A migratory species -- Melancholy.…”
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Slavery, disease, and suffering in the southern Lowcountry by McCandless, Peter

Table of Contents: “…Combating pestilence -- "I wish that I had studied physick" -- "I know nothing of this disease" -- Providence, prudence, and patience -- Buying the smallpox -- Commerce, contagion, and cleanliness -- A migratory species -- Melancholy.…”
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To catch a virus / by Booss, John

Table of Contents: “…Fear or terror on every countenance : yellow fever -- Of mice and men : animal models of virus infection -- Filling the churchyard with corpses : smallpox and the immune response -- What can be seen : from viral inclusion bodies to electron microscopy -- The turning point : cytopathic effect in tissue culture -- A torrent of viral isolates : the early years of diagnostic virology -- Imaging viruses and tagging their antigens -- Immunological memory : ingenuity and serendipity -- To the barricades : the molecular revolution.…”
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To catch a virus / by Booss, John

Table of Contents: “…Fear or terror on every countenance : yellow fever -- Of mice and men : animal models of virus infection -- Filling the churchyard with corpses : smallpox and the immune response -- What can be seen : from viral inclusion bodies to electron microscopy -- The turning point : cytopathic effect in tissue culture -- A torrent of viral isolates : the early years of diagnostic virology -- Imaging viruses and tagging their antigens -- Immunological memory : ingenuity and serendipity -- To the barricades : the molecular revolution.…”
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Viral fitness the next SARS and West Nile in the making / by Goudsmit, Jaap, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…As natural as breathing: the flu virus -- Farming and feeding the hungry: plant viruses and human enteroviruses -- Raising cattle and eating meat: rinderpest, measles and mad cow virus -- Slaking our thirst: the cholera bacteria and its toxic viruses -- Weathering storms and droughts: West Nile virus and others alike -- Getting lucky with a faulty gene: escape from simple retroviruses -- Taking chances with sex: the herpes and papova viruses -- Risking death with sex: the AIDS virus -- Warring against humans and other animals: smallpox, monkeypox and alike -- Raiding the wild for delicacies: the sars virus.…”
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Diseased relations epidemics, public health, and state-building in Yucatán, Mexico, 1847-1924 / by McCrea, Heather L.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : region, ethnography, and medicine in Yucatán, Mexico -- The politics of prevention : the Maya, smallpox, and vaccination campaigns -- On sacred ground : cholera, burial rites, and cemetery management -- Cholera and the caste war : civilizing campaigns and disease prevention -- Modernizing the periphery : henequen, the caste war, and yellow fever -- Disease prevention, the Rockefeller Foundation, and revolution in Yucatán, 1915-24 -- Conclusion : outsiders, disease, and public health in modern Yucatán, Mexico -- Afterword : H1N1 and the legacy of uncertainty.…”
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Diseased relations epidemics, public health, and state-building in Yucatán, Mexico, 1847-1924 / by McCrea, Heather L.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : region, ethnography, and medicine in Yucatán, Mexico -- The politics of prevention : the Maya, smallpox, and vaccination campaigns -- On sacred ground : cholera, burial rites, and cemetery management -- Cholera and the caste war : civilizing campaigns and disease prevention -- Modernizing the periphery : henequen, the caste war, and yellow fever -- Disease prevention, the Rockefeller Foundation, and revolution in Yucatán, 1915-24 -- Conclusion : outsiders, disease, and public health in modern Yucatán, Mexico -- Afterword : H1N1 and the legacy of uncertainty.…”
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Viral fitness the next SARS and West Nile in the making / by Goudsmit, Jaap, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…As natural as breathing: the flu virus -- Farming and feeding the hungry: plant viruses and human enteroviruses -- Raising cattle and eating meat: rinderpest, measles and mad cow virus -- Slaking our thirst: the cholera bacteria and its toxic viruses -- Weathering storms and droughts: West Nile virus and others alike -- Getting lucky with a faulty gene: escape from simple retroviruses -- Taking chances with sex: the herpes and papova viruses -- Risking death with sex: the AIDS virus -- Warring against humans and other animals: smallpox, monkeypox and alike -- Raiding the wild for delicacies: the sars virus.…”
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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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Poison in small measure Dr. Christopherson and the cure for bilharzia / by Crichton-Harris, Ann

Table of Contents: “…Worms and dead eggs in the long hot summer -- Three generations of Christophersons : tanner to clergyman to physician -- The Boer War experience : the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital-a palace in the desert -- Sudan 1902-3 : smallpox delivers both fear and opportunity -- 1904 and the appointment blunder -- The wellcome laboratory on the Nile and a relapsing fever dispute. …”
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Vaccinations types, potential complications and health effects /

Table of Contents: “….] -- Recent topics for hepatitis B vaccination / Viroj Wiwanitkit -- Smallpox vaccine stockpile and vaccination policy / Judith A. …”
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Poison in small measure Dr. Christopherson and the cure for bilharzia / by Crichton-Harris, Ann

Table of Contents: “…Worms and dead eggs in the long hot summer -- Three generations of Christophersons : tanner to clergyman to physician -- The Boer War experience : the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital-a palace in the desert -- Sudan 1902-3 : smallpox delivers both fear and opportunity -- 1904 and the appointment blunder -- The wellcome laboratory on the Nile and a relapsing fever dispute. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view