The Medical Detective
Publisher: Granta Books
Published: April 3, 2006
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781862078420
Subjects: European history: c 1750 to c 1900; History of medicine; Public health & preventive medicine; Social history
First sentence: If it be really true that there is a 'pestilence which walketh in darkness', observing no regular or even track, desolating various parts of Europe simultaneously, pursuing its murderous course in the face of adverse winds and visiting countries in which it had never before been heard of, who can say that England will be exempt?