03157nam 22005774a 450 991081328550332120200520144314.01-281-97468-497866119746881-934559-38-5(CKB)1000000000242738(EBL)289782(OCoLC)808609995(SSID)ssj0000222101(PQKBManifestationID)11197633(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000222101(PQKBWorkID)10163199(PQKB)10749163(Au-PeEL)EBL289782(CaPaEBR)ebr10118503(CaONFJC)MIL197468(MiAaPQ)EBC289782(EXLCZ)99100000000024273820030516d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPlagues & poxes the impact of human history on epidemic disease /Alfred Jay Bollet2nd ed.New York Demosc20041 online resource (264 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-888799-79-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Bubonic plague: the prototype of pandemic disasters -- The "little flies" that brought death, part 1: malaria or the burning ague -- The "little flies" that brought death, part 2: yellow fever -- Syphilis: the great pox -- The smallpox -- Cholera and the worldwide plagues of the nineteenth century -- The great influenza pandemic of 1918-1919: President Woodrow Wilson and the BlitzkatarrhPoliomyelitis: why did Franklin Delano Roosevelt get infantile paralysis as an adult? -- Beriberi: an epidemic affecting rice-eaters -- The pellagra epidemics: the three M's produce the four D's -- Scurvy: the purpura nautica -- Dying for a cigar? how about a cigarette?: smoking and epidemic cancer: a story of two presidents and a prince -- Rickets: the English disease -- Gout: the disease of good living -- Anthrax: from woolsorter's disease to terrorism -- Botulism: from bad food to terrorism -- The SARS epidemic: a new disease retraces the experience with older diseases.Since publication of the initial version of Plagues & Poxes in 1987, which had the optimistic subtitle ''The Rise and Fall of Epidemic Disease,'' the rise of new diseases such as AIDS and the deliberate modification and weaponization of diseases such as anthrax have changed the way we perceive infectious disease. With major modifications to deal with this new reality, the acclaimed author of Civil War Medicine: Challenges and Triumphs has updated and revised this series of essays about changing disease patterns in history and some of the key events and people involved in them. It deals with thPlagues and poxesEpidemiologyHistoryEpidemiologyHistory.614.4/9Bollet Alfred J1605417MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813285503321Plagues & poxes3930650UNINA