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050 00 $aRA649$b.B65 2004
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100 1 $aBollet, Alfred J.
245 10 $aPlagues & poxes :$bthe impact of human history on epidemic disease /$cAlfred Jay Bollet.
246 3 $aPlagues and poxes
250 $a2nd ed.
260 $aNew York :$bDemos,$cc2004.
300 $axii, 237 p. :$bill. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aBubonic 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 Blitzkatarrh
505 0 $aPoliomyelitis: 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.
650 0 $aEpidemiology$xHistory.
994 $aC0$bXIM