Author: John SnowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cholera
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
On the Mode of Communication of Cholera, by John Snow,... 2d Edition, Much Enlarged
Author: John SnowOn the Mode of Communication of Cholera
Author: John SnowPublisher: Cosimo Classics
ISBN: 9781646791774
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
On the Mode of Communication of Cholera-Second Edition, Much Enlarged (1854) is the follow-up to an earlier short essay (also available from Cosimo Classics) by English physician John Snow.
On the Mode of Communication of Cholera
Author: John SnowOn the Mode of Communication of Cholera
Author: John SnowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cholera
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
John Snow (1813-1858) first became interested in cholera at Newcastle-on-Tyne during the epidemic of 1831-1832. Recurrent outbreaks of the disease gave him the opportunity to investigate it in detail. Snow's first paper on cholera, published in the London Medical Gazette in 1849, contained his demonstration of the nature of the disease, which he defined correctly as an infection of the alimentary canal transmitted by ingesting fecal matter from cholera patients, in most cases via contaminated water. Snow proved his theory of cholera transmission by collecting data on a large number of outbreaks and correlating them to local water supplies. His information aroused much controversy among physicians, many of whom still held the ancient belief that cholera, along with all other infectious diseases, was carried by atmospheric "miasmas" emanating from noxious sources.
On the Mode of Communication of Cholera
Author: John Snow (M.D.)John Snow
Author: Jack ChallonerPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408180545
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
John Snow was a Victorian physician who helped to establish that cholera was spread by contaminated water (not bad air, as theory had it). He traced the source of a deadly cholera outbreak to one pump and was able to have it closed, ending the outbreak, despite deep resistance from the local authorities, who did not want to believe his theory. This was a massive event in public health and the founding event of the science of epidemiology. Snow was also an early pioneer of anaesthesia. A dedicated scientist, the results of his work are still evident. He saved untold lives. This is his story.
Africa in the Time of Cholera
Author: Myron EchenbergPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139498967
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
This book combines evidence from natural and social sciences to examine the impact on Africa of seven cholera pandemics since 1817, particularly the current impact of cholera on such major countries as Senegal, Angola, Mozambique, Congo, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Myron Echenberg highlights the irony that this once-terrible scourge, having receded from most of the globe, now kills thousands of Africans annually - Africa now accounts for more than 90 percent of the world's cases and deaths - and leaves many more with severe developmental impairment. Responsibility for the suffering caused is shared by Western lending and health institutions and by often venal and incompetent African leadership. If the threat of this old scourge is addressed with more urgency, great progress in the public health of Africans can be achieved.
Cholera 1832
Author: R. J. MorrisPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000566595
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Originally published in 1976, this is the account of British society’s response to the threat of disease. It is the story of an administrative fight to exclude the disease by quarantine and to persuade commerce and working-class people to observe carefully thought-out regulations. The story of one of failure – of men hampered by lack of information, lack of resources and lack of a convincing scientific explanation. Medical science failed to see that infected water supplies were the major carriers of the epidemic and failed to acknowledge saline infusion (the basis of successful modern treatment) when it was presented to them by an obscure local surgeon in Leith. The social structure of the medical profession was as much a barrier to scientific advance as the technical limitations of statistical method and microscope. These reactions are explained in terms of the expectations and the understanding of those involved as well as in terms of modern medical knowledge and sociological theory.
On Diseases of the Bladder & Prostate Gland ... Second edition, greatly enlarged
Author: William COULSONA Treatise on the pathology of the urine
Author: John Louis William ThudichumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description