Author: Portsmouth Relief Association (Portsmouth, Va.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epidemics
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Report of the Portsmouth Relief Association to the Contributors of the Fund for the Relief of Portsmouth, Virginia
Author: Portsmouth Relief Association (Portsmouth, Va.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epidemics
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
REPORT OF THE PORTSMOUTH RELIE
Author: Portsmouth Relief Association (PortsmoutPublisher:
ISBN: 9781373884275
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Report of the Portsmouth Relief Association to the Contributors of the Fund for the Relief of Portsmouth, Virginia, During the Prevalence of the Yellow Fever in That Town in 1855
Author: Portsmouth Relief AssociationPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780656080342
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Excerpt from Report of the Portsmouth Relief Association to the Contributors of the Fund for the Relief of Portsmouth, Virginia, During the Prevalence of the Yellow Fever in That Town in 1855: The Exhibit of the Treasurer of the Receipts and Disbursements of the Fund, and Statements of Other Members of the Association; Together With a Sketch of the Fever, Etc;, Etc About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Report to the Contributors of the Fund for the Relief of Portsmouth, Virginia, During the Prevalence of the Yellow Fever ... 1855 ...
Author: Relief Association (Portsmouth, Va.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public health
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Report of the Portsmouth relief association to the contributors of the fun
Author: Portsmouth relief associationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
A Bibliography of Virginia ...: Titles of books in the Virginia State Library which relate to Virginia and Virginians, the titles of those books written by Virginians, and of those printed in Virginia, but not including ... published official documents
Author: Virginia State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
A Bibliography of Virginia ...
Author: Virginia State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
Contents.--pt. 1. Titles of books in the Virginia State Library which relate to Virginia and Virginians, the titles of those books written by Virginians, and of those printed in Virginia, but not including ... published official documents.--pt. 2. Titles of the printed official documents of the Commonwealth, 1776-1916.--pt. 3. The Acts and Journals of the General Assembly of the Colony, 1619-1776.--pt. 4. Three series of sessional documents of the House of Delegates: ... January 7-April 4, 1861 ... September 15-October 6, 1862; and .. January 7-March 31, 1863.--pt. 5. Titles of the printed documents of the Commonwealth, 1916-1925.
Bulletin of the Virginia State Library
Author: Virginia State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
More Than Hot
Author: Christopher HamlinPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421415038
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
A conceptual and cultural history of fever, a universally experienced and sometimes feared symptom. Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRL Christopher Hamlin’s magisterial work engages a common experience—fever—in all its varieties and meanings. Reviewing the representations of that condition from ancient times to the present, More Than Hot is a history of the world through the lens of fever. The book deals with the expression of fever, with the efforts of medical scientists to classify it, and with fever’s changing social, cultural, and political significance. Long before there were thermometers to measure it, people recognized fever as a dangerous, if transitory, state of being. It was the most familiar form of alienation from the normal self, a concern to communities and states as well as to patients, families, and healers. The earliest medical writers struggled for a conceptual vocabulary to explain fever. During the Enlightenment, the idea of fever became a means to acknowledge the biological experiences that united humans. A century later, in the age of imperialism, it would become a key element of conquest, both an important way of differentiating places and races, and of imposing global expectations of health. Ultimately the concept would split: "fevers" were dangerous and often exotic epidemic diseases, while “fever” remained a curious physiological state, certainly distressing but usually benign. By the end of the twentieth century, that divergence divided the world between a global South profoundly affected by fevers—chiefly malaria—and a North where fever, now merely a symptom, was so medically trivial as to be transformed into a familiar motif of popular culture. A senior historian of science and medicine, Hamlin shares stories from individuals—some eminent, many forgotten—who exemplify aspects of fever: reflections of the fevered, for whom fevers, and especially the vivid hallucinations of delirium, were sometimes transformative; of those who cared for them (nurses and, often, mothers); and of those who sought to explain deadly epidemic outbreaks. Significant also are the arguments of the reformers, for whom fever stood as a proxy for manifold forms of injustice. Broad in scope and sweep, Hamlin’s study is a reflection of how the meanings of diseases continue to shift, affecting not only the identities we create but often also our ability to survive.
Portsmouth Virginia
Author: Robert Brooke AlbertsonPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738514543
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Located in heart of the Chesapeake Bay at the zero milepost on the Intracoastal Waterway, Portsmouth's five historic districts and its thriving downtown are living landmarks, reminding onlookers of the gracious living, perilous times, and exciting events that often played a crucial role in the life of the nation. Here the last Colonial governor of Virginia took refuge, and here Lord Cornwallis garrisoned his British troops before going to Yorktown, where his defeat gave birth to the United States. Here the first ironclad ship, the first battleship, and the first aircraft carrier were designed and built, and here the wounded from all of America's wars since 1830 have been brought to recover at Portsmouth's naval hospital. Vintage photographs within these pages capture the everyday lives of almost four centuries of residents. The ferries that connected Portsmouth to nearby Norfolk, the trains that made it the gateway to the South, and the city's center-its commercial district-all come alive through the images. Focusing on the Olde Towne historic district, the Naval Hospital, the Naval Shipyard, and the downtown area district, this volume provides a tour of the quaint structures of the oldest part of the city and preserves part of the nation's heritage.