Knowledge in the Time of Cholera: The Struggle over American Medicine in the Nineteenth Century
Owen Whooley
Vomiting. Diarrhea. Dehydration. Death. Confusion. In 1832, the arrival of cholera in the United States created widespread panic throughout the country. For the rest of the century, epidemics swept through American cities and towns like wildfire, killing thousands. Physicians of all stripes offered conflicting answers to the cholera puzzle, ineffectively responding with opiates, bleeding, quarantines, and all manner of remedies, before the identity of the dreaded infection was consolidated under the germ theory of disease some sixty years later.
Knowledge in the Time of Cholera
Knowledge in the Time of Cholera
Năm:
2013
Nhà xuát bản:
University of Chicago Press
Ngôn ngữ:
english
Trang:
312
ISBN 10:
022601777X
ISBN 13:
9780226017778
File:
PDF, 1.87 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2013