The epidemic streets : infectious disease and the rise of preventive medicine, 1856-1900 /
This title provides a study of death and disease in the 19th century, and how Victorian society coped with infectious disease. It tells how a century ago whooping cough, measles, scarlet fever and many other diseases ravaged millions of families and made life desperately uncertain.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
1993.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This title provides a study of death and disease in the 19th century, and how Victorian society coped with infectious disease. It tells how a century ago whooping cough, measles, scarlet fever and many other diseases ravaged millions of families and made life desperately uncertain. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 325 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-314) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191583025 0191583022 0585261717 9780585261713 6610767009 9780198203773 0198203772 9786610767007 9781280767005 1280767006 9780191675966 0191675962 |