The American plague : the untold story of yellow fever, the epidemic that shaped our history / Molly Caldwell Crosby.

  • Crosby, Molly Caldwell.
Date:
2006
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

New York : Berkley Books, 2006.

Physical description

viii, 308 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Notes

Map on lining papers.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-296) and index.

Contents

pt. 1. The American plague. -- pt. 2. Memphis, 1878. -- Carnival -- Bright canary yellow -- The doctors -- A city of corpses -- The destroying angel -- Greatly exaggerated -- The Havana Commission -- Reparations -- pt. 3. Cuba, 1900. -- A splendid little war -- Siboney -- An unlikely hero -- A meeting of minds -- The Yellow Fever Commission -- Insects -- Vivisection -- Did the mosquito do it? -- Guinea pig no. 1 -- Camp Lazear -- A new century -- Blood -- The etiology of yellow fever -- Retribution -- The mosquito -- pt. 4. United States, present day. -- Epidemic -- A return to Africa -- The vaccine -- History repeats itself -- Epilogue : Elmwood.

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    History of Medicine
    FU.6.AA8-9
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ISBN

  • 0425212025
  • 9780425212028