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Cholera : a worldwide history

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"The "King of Terrors" is more prevalent today than at any time throughout history. In seven major cholera pandemics beginning in 1817, hundreds of thousands of people have died. Although called "The disease of filth," the deadly effects of cholera spared no one, no matter their station in life"-- Provided by publisher.

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Cholera : a worldwide history

Call No

RA644.C3 K68 2014

Authors

Kotar, S. L.
Gessler, J. E.

Subjects

Cholera--History.
Cholera--history.
History, 19th Century.
History, 20th Century.
History, 21st Century.
Cholera
History

Language

English

Published

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2014.

Publication Desc

viii, 397 pages : illustrations ;

ISBN

9780786472420

LCCN

2014000864

Target Audience

Unknown or not specified

Dimensions

26 cm.

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"The "King of Terrors" is more prevalent today than at any time throughout history. In seven major cholera pandemics beginning in 1817, hundreds of thousands of people have died. Although called "The disease of filth," the deadly effects of cholera spared no one, no matter their station in life"--
Provided by publisher.

Content Note

1. "Water, water every where, nor any drop to drink" -- 2. What is cholera? : an early conundrum -- 3. The immortal Sydenham -- 4. "The cause of pestilential distempers" -- 5. Cholera reaches the pandemic stage -- 6. The second cholera pandemic : the Polish Insurrection, 1830-1831 -- The second cholera pandemic : England and France, 1831 -- 8. Sunderland : the continuing sage, 1831 -- 9. Trials and tribulations -- 10. England, 1832 : "who shall decide when doctors disagree?: -- 11. "From our correspondent : foreign news" -- 12. Cholera in North America : "imported by immigrants" -- 13. The scourge of God -- 14. "Choleraphobia" -- 15. "I do not know who is dead and who is alive" -- 16. Mowed down by cholera -- 17. "Times are not better, they are worse" -- 18. Windows, potatoes and avatars -- 19. Health and sanitation -- 20. The Animalcular and the Fungoid theories of cholera -- 21. "A dose of magnesia is death" -- 22. "Cleanliness is the very vaccination of cholera" -- 23. "Our hopes that England may escape are less sanguine" -- 24. Following the pestilence : The United States through the 1850s -- 25. "The grand experiment" -- 26. The Crimean War and beyond -- 27. The fourth cholera pandemic, 1863-1879 -- 28. The water we drink -- 29. The fifth cholera pandemic, 1881-1896 -- 30. The sixth cholera pandemic, 1899-1947 -- 31. Cholera in the World War II era -- 32. The seventh cholera pandemic : "no country is safe from cholera" -- 33. Research conducted during the seventh pandemic -- 34. The resurgence of King Cholera -- 35. From Snow to Koch to DNA : the next-to-last chapter -- Glossary -- Appendix I. Cures for cholera throughout the ages -- Appendix II. Cholera mobs mortality statistics in the 19th Century : the harvest of death.