Spreading germs : disease theories and medical practice in Britain, 1865-1900 /

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Main Author: Worboys, Michael, 1948-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Series:Cambridge history of medicine
Cambridge history of medicine
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Table of Contents:
  • 1.
  • Medical practice and disease theories, c. 1865
  • 2.
  • Veterinary medicine, the cattle plague and contagion, 1865-1890
  • 3.
  • 'Germs in the air': surgeons, hospitalism and sepsis, c. 1865-1875
  • 4.
  • 'Something definite to guide you in your sanitary precautions': sanitary science, poisons and contagium viva, 1866-1880
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  • 'Deeper than the surface of the wound': surgeons antisepsis and asepsis, 1876-1900
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  • From heresity To infection: tuberculosis, bacteriology and medicine, 1870-1900
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  • Preventive medicine and the 'bacteriological era', 1880-1900.