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Cholera : the biography /

Cholera is a frightening disease. Victims are wracked by stomach cramps and suffer intense diarrhoea. Death can come within hours. Though now seeming a distant memory in Europe, which suffered several epidemics in the 19th century before John Snow identified the link with water, it is still a seriou...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hamlin, Christopher, 1951-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Series:Biographies of disease (Oxford, England)
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cholera : the very idea
  • Cholera finds itself
  • Citizen cholera
  • Cholera confuses
  • Cholera goes into analysis, and dies
  • Cholera's last laugh.