Spreading germs : disease theories and medical practice in Britain, 1865-1900 /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2000.
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| Series: | Cambridge history of medicine
Cambridge history of medicine |
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Table of Contents:
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- Medical practice and disease theories, c. 1865
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- Veterinary medicine, the cattle plague and contagion, 1865-1890
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- 'Germs in the air': surgeons, hospitalism and sepsis, c. 1865-1875
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- '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.