Spreading Germs
Subtitle: Disease Theories and Medical Practice in Britain, 18651900 (Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 16, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780521773027
Subjects: History of medicine; Medical; Europe - Great Britain - General; Medical / Nursing; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Medical / History; Public health--Great Britain--History--19th century; Diseases; 19th century; Causes and theories of causation; Great Britain; History; Public Health; Social medicine
First sentence: To set the scene for the construction, use and spread of germ theories of disease after 1865, in this chapter 1 consider the mid-Victorian medical profession and the prevailing ideas on the nature of disease.