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Subtitle: Producing Pathology in Victorian Culture
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: November 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780822326083
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; History of medicine; Literary studies: 19th century; Social history; c 1800 to c 1900; History - General History; England; Social Science; English; Sociology; Medicine, Industrial; Europe - Great Britain - General; History; Modern - 19th Century; Cultural Studies; History, European; Literary Studies/American Lite; Cholera; Anthropology - Cultural; 19th century; Social medicine
First sentence: This is the story of Asiatic cholera, as told by John A. Benson's 1893 treatise on the subject: Up from the dark Plutonian caverns of Erebus, up from the clouded Stygian valley, up from the depths of hell, in the early part of this century, arose the Goddess of Filth, and she wandered around over the face of the globe, seeking for a home to her liking.