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...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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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.