Author: Illinois. State Charities CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Annual Report of the State Charities Commission
Author: Illinois. State Charities CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Goldberger's War
Author: Alan M. KrautPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374606323
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
For fans of Guns, Germs, and Steel, Alan M. Kraut's Goldberg's War tells the story of one doctor's courageous journey to cure deadly diseases and epidemics. Goldberger's War chronicles one of the U.S. Public Health Service's most renowned heroes--an immigrant Jew who trained as a doctor at Bellevue, became a young recruit to the federal government's health service, and ended an American plague. He did so by defying conventional wisdom, experimenting on humans, and telling the South precisely what it didn't want to hear. Kraut shows how Dr. Goldberger's life became, quite literally, the stuff of legends. On the front lines of the major public-health battles of the early 20th-century, he fought the epidemics that were then routinely sweeping the nation--typhoid, yellow fever, and the measles. After successfully confronting (and often contracting) the infectious diseases of his day, in 1914 he was assigned the mystery of pellagra, a disease whose cause and cure had eluded the world for centuries and was then afflicting tens of thousands of Americans every year, particularly in the emerging "New South." “Engrossing story of an American medical hero.” —The New England Journal of Medicine
Annual report of the State Charities Commission [Illinois]. 1911
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Author: Report of the Secretary of State
Author: Illinois. Office of Secretary of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of the State of Illinois
Author: Illinois. Office of Secretary of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Annual report of the Commissioner of Health of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. 1909 v. 2
Author: Pellagra
Author: Henry Fauntleroy HarrisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pellagra
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Annual Report of the Commissioner of Health of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Author: Pennsylvania. Commissioner of HealthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
Public Health Reports
Author: The Butterfly Caste
Author: Elizabeth EtheridgePublisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This book is a medical detective story of the search for a killer. Pellagra, the disease of the four Ds: diarrhea, dermatitis, dementia, and death, was epidemic in the Southern United States in the early part of this century. The often fatal disease was characterized by the dramatic stigmata of an ugly red "butterfly" across the nose and a symmetrical skin rash on the extremities. Although it has been described and studied by European physicians as early as 1735, and pellagroid symptoms had long been identified in this country, pellagra was not acknowledged as a discrete disease until 1907. In that year an epidemic broke out in an asylum in Alabama. Reports of other cases quickly followed, and within a few years pellagra was pandemic in the South. The search for the killer was on, but it would be many years before the cause could be isolated and a cure found. In 1914, Dr. Joseph Goldberger, a United States Public Health Service physician, became director of the PHS pellagra research program. This book traces his efforts to identify the culprit responsible for this disease and ultimately to find the cure in 1937 that would help to eliminate it.