Name: Dissertations on Malaria, Contagion and Cholera Paperback (Cambridge Library Collection - History of Medicine) (en Inglés)
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Author: Aiton
ISBN: 9781108061414

portada Dissertations on Malaria, Contagion and Cholera Paperback (Cambridge Library Collection - History of Medicine) (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Cambridge University Press

Autor

Aiton

Año

2013

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

318

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781108061414

Categorías

Medicina forense

Dissertations on Malaria, Contagion and Cholera Paperback (Cambridge Library Collection - History of Medicine) (en Inglés)

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When this book was first published in 1832, England was caught in a cholera pandemic that had already claimed hundreds of thousands of lives across Europe. It was commonly held that 'bad air' spread the disease, but theories and remedies varied: one doctor advised the Nottinghamshire public to carry silk cushions filled with myrrh and camphor to strengthen resistance to contagion, while in New York officials suspected that raw vegetables and cold water were the root of the problem. In this fiercely logical treatise, ship's doctor William Aiton cuts through even the most prevalent myths to investigate the pandemic's real causes. Throwing out the theory of bad air, he observes that cholera spreads most quickly in cities with a stagnant water supply and overseas trade. Also addressing the spread of other infectious diseases, his work provides an invaluable insight into the conflicting information available to the general public during pandemics.