The great stink of Paris and the nineteenth-century struggle against filth and germs / David S. Barnes.

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.

xi, 314 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-306) and index.

Introduction -- "Not everything that stinks kills" : odors and germs on the streets of Paris, 1880 -- The santiarian's legacy, or how health became public -- Taxonomies of transmission : local etiologies and the equivocal triumph of germ theory -- Putting germ theory into practice -- Toward a cleaner and healthier republic -- Odors and "infection," 1880 and beyond -- The legacy of the twentieth century.