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History
Great Inoculator The Untold Story of Daniel Sutton and his Medical Revolution
Weightman Gavin
ISBN: HB: 9780300241440, Yale University Press, August 2020
208 pp., 21x14 cm, 16 black&white illus.
Smallpox was the scourge of the eighteenth century: it showed no mercy, almost wiping out whole societies. Young and old, poor and royalty were equally at risk – unless they had survived a previous attack. Daniel Sutton, a young surgeon from Suffolk,...
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Contagious Cause The American Hunt for Cancer Viruses and the Rise of Molecular Medicine
Wolfe Scheffler Robin
ISBN: PB: 9780226628370, ISBN: HB: 9780226458892, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones
Is cancer a contagious disease? In the late nineteenth century this idea, and attending efforts to identify a cancer "germ", inspired fear and ignited controversy. Yet speculation that cancer might be contagious also contained a kernel of hope that t...
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Revolting Remedies from the Middle Ages
Wakelin Daniel
ISBN: HB: 9781851244768, Bodleian Library Publishing, November 2017
112 pp., 17x11 cm
"For a zitty face. Take urine eight days old and heat it over the fire; wash your face with it morning and night". In late medieval England, ordinary people, apothecaries and physicians gathered up practical medical tips for everyday use. While some...
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Knowledge in the Time of Cholera The Struggle over American Medicine in the Nineteenth Century
Whooley Owen
ISBN: PB: 9780226017631, ISBN: HB: 9780226017464, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
328 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 tables, 1 map, 7 halftones
Vomiting. Diarrhea. Dehydration. Death. Confusion. In 1832, the arrival of cholera in the United States created widespread panic throughout the country. For the rest of the century, epidemics swept through American cities and towns like wildfire, kil...
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