The epidemic streets infectious disease and the rise of preventive medicine, 1856-1900 /
This title provides a study of death and disease in the 19th century, and how Victorian society coped with infectious disease. It tells how a century ago whooping cough, measles, scarlet fever and many other diseases ravaged millions of families and made life desperately uncertain.
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Hardy, Anne, 1953- |
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EBSCOhost. |
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eBook
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English
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Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
1993.
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Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xii, 325 pages) : illustrations.
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