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Rheumatic fever in America and Britain : a biological, epidemiological, and medical history /
In 1940, rheumatic fever accounted for nearly 40,000 deaths in the US. By 1970, only 256 deaths were attributed to this disease in the US. English, a physician and a professor of history of medicine at Duke University, examines the historical course of rheumatic fever. He explores both the shifting...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
©1999.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- pt. I. The emergence of rheumatic fever in the nineteenth century
- Ch. 1. The new face of rheumatism, 1798-1840
- Ch. 2. Acute rheumatism and hospitals, 1840-1880
- Ch. 3. Walter Butler Cheadle and the "typical case," 1880-1890
- pt. II. The clinical and scientific challenges of an evolving disease
- Ch. 4. Rheumatic fever as sepsis, 1890-1920
- Ch. 5. Clinical Management, 1890-1925
- Ch. 6. Allergy, heredity, environment, and the emergence of the streptococcus, 1925-1945
- pt. III. The disappearance of rheumatic fever in the twentieth century.
- Ch. 7. From acute to chronic, 1925-1945
- Ch. 8. At the bedside, 1925-1945
- Ch. 9. Penicillin, cortisone, and heart surgery, 1945-1965
- Ch. 10. The waning of rheumatic fever : molecular biology, epidemiology, and history, 1945-1965.