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A darkened house : cholera in nineteenth-century Canada /
From its first appearance in 1832 until the last scares of 1871, cholera aroused fear in British North America. The disease killed 20,000 people and its psychological effects were enormous. Cholera unsettled governments, undermined the medical profession, exposed inadequacies in public health, and w...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto ; Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
1980.
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| Colección: | Social history of Canada ;
31. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- 'Scrape, wash and cleanse'
- 'Calculated to unman the ... strongest': Lower Canada 1832
- 'Nothing is to be heard but the "cholera"': Upper Canada 1832
- 'The ravages ... has been kept hid': Canada 1834
- 'Distance is no security': the Maritimes 1832-4
- 'Ample room ... for further improvements': later epidemics
- 'Charlatanism of every description'
- 'Shortcomings ... exposed relentlessly.'