The conquest of epidemic disease
Subtitle: a chapter in the history of ideas
By: by Charles-Edward Amory Winslow
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1944
Language: eng
Number of pages: 411
Subjects: Epidemics; Public health; Quarantine; Epidemiology; Communicable Disease Control; Medicine; History of Medicine; History; Public Health; Prevention; Communicable diseases
Description: This book details the history of epidemic disease and the causation theories associated with epidemics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 384-397) and index.

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Table of contents: title: World of demons; title: The wrath of god; title: Metaphysical medicine; title: The universe of natural law; title: Primitive concepts of contagion; title: The great teacher; title: Fracastorius; title: The conception of a contagium animatum; title: The English Hippocrates; title: The last of the plague tractates; title: The enigma of yellow fever; title: The great sanitary awakening; title: Three pioneer epidemiologists; title: Pasteur; title: Pettenkofer: the last stand; title: The concept of the carrier; title: The insect host; title: The modes of infection.