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Spitting blood : the history of tuberculosis /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bynum, Helen (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2012]
Subjects:
Tuberculosis > History.
Tuberculosis > Treatment > History.
Tuberculosis > Prevention > History.
Tuberculosis > history.
Communicable Disease Control > history.
Hospitals, Isolation > history.
Anti-Bacterial Agents > history.
Ebooks.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: George Orwell (1903-1950)
  • Ancient acteria, old diseases
  • All with 'a touch of consumption'?
  • Tubercles, airs, waters and places
  • Consumption's fashionistas
  • Consumption becomes tuberculosis
  • Design for living
  • Tuberculosis and the health of the race
  • Streptomycin & co
  • A job half done
  • Epilogue: 'There is no Dypraxa.