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Download or read book Yellow Jack written by John R. Pierce and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-03-29 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yellow Jack tracks the history of this deadly scourge from its earliest appearance in the Caribbean 350 years ago, telling the compelling story of a few extraordinarily brave souls who struggled to understand and eradicate yellow fever.
Book Synopsis Walter Reed and Yellow Fever by : Howard Atwood Kelly
Download or read book Walter Reed and Yellow Fever written by Howard Atwood Kelly and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Secret of the Yellow Death by : Suzanne Jurmain
Download or read book The Secret of the Yellow Death written by Suzanne Jurmain and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Extremely interesting . . . Young people interested in medicine or scientific discovery will find this book engrossing, as will history students” (School Library Journal). [He had] a fever that hovered around 104 degrees. His skin turned yellow. The whites of his eyes looked like lemons. Nauseated, he gagged and threw up again and again . . . Here is the true story of how four Americans and one Cuban tracked down a killer, one of the word’s most vicious plagues: yellow fever. Journeying to fever-stricken Cuba in the company of Walter Reed and his colleagues, the reader feels the heavy air, smells the stench of disease, hears the whine of mosquitoes biting human volunteers during surreal experiments. Exploring themes of courage, cooperation, and the ethics of human experimentation, this gripping account is ultimately a story of the triumph of science. “[A] powerful exploration of a disease that killed 100,000 U.S. citizens in the 1800s.” —Kirkus Reviews Includes photos
Book Synopsis Sanitation in Panama by : William Crawford Gorgas
Download or read book Sanitation in Panama written by William Crawford Gorgas and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The American Plague by : Molly Caldwell Crosby
Download or read book The American Plague written by Molly Caldwell Crosby and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this account, a journalist traces the course of the infectious disease known as yellow fever, “vividly [evoking] the Faulkner-meets-Dawn of the Dead horrors” (The New York Times Book Review) of this killer virus. Over the course of history, yellow fever has paralyzed governments, halted commerce, quarantined cities, moved the U.S. capital, and altered the outcome of wars. During a single summer in Memphis alone, it cost more lives than the Chicago fire, the San Francisco earthquake, and the Johnstown flood combined. In 1900, the U.S. sent three doctors to Cuba to discover how yellow fever was spread. There, they launched one of history's most controversial human studies. Compelling and terrifying, The American Plague depicts the story of yellow fever and its reign in this country—and in Africa, where even today it strikes thousands every year. With “arresting tales of heroism,” (Publishers Weekly) it is a story as much about the nature of human beings as it is about the nature of disease.
Download or read book Run, Don't Walk written by Adele Levine and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: M*A*S*H meets Scrubs in a sharply observant, darkly funny, and totally unique debut memoir from physical therapist Adele Levine. In her six years at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Adele Levine rehabilitated soldiers admitted in worse and worse shape. As body armor and advanced trauma care helped save the lives—if not the limbs—of American soldiers fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, Walter Reed quickly became the world leader in amputee rehabilitation. But no matter the injury, physical therapy began the moment the soldiers emerged from surgery. Days at Walter Reed were intense, chaotic, consuming, and heartbreaking, but they were also filled with camaraderie and humor. Working in a glassed-in fishbowl gymnasium, Levine, her colleagues, and their combat-injured patients were on display at every moment to tour groups, politicians, and celebrities. Some would shudder openly at the sight—but inside the glass and out of earshot, the PTs and the patients cracked jokes, played pranks, and compared stumps. With dazzling storytelling, Run, Don’t Walk introduces a motley array of oddball characters including: Jim, a retired lieutenant-colonel who stays up late at night baking cake after cake, and the militant dietitian who is always after him; a surgeon who only speaks in farm analogies; a therapy dog gone rogue; —and Levine’s toughest patient, the wild, defiant Cosmo, who comes in with one leg amputated and his other leg shattered. Entertaining, engrossing, and ultimately inspiring, Run, Don’t Walk is a fascinating look into a hidden world.
Book Synopsis Lifting the Impenetrable Veil by : Charles H. Calisher
Download or read book Lifting the Impenetrable Veil written by Charles H. Calisher and published by Gail Blinde. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History books can be boring to read but Dr. Charles Calisher has written a history of the early days of virus research that is anything but boring. His book emphasizes viruses, organization, and people, the combination which has led us to today. Using yellow fever and the virus that causes it, yellow fever virus, as an example of a disease caused by a virus transmitted by insects, Calisher takes us through the days when knowledge of these diseases was in short supply, techniques were primitive, but researchers were brilliant, innovative, and hard-working. From Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch, to Walter Reed and Max Theiler, and then to the more recent investigators, this book shows the sequences of events, how what is discovered becomes the basis for other discoveries. The results of the efforts of the earliest investigators were exciting and led them and those who followed to further discoveries about viruses: what they were, where they were, and who they infected. As discoveries were made, doors were opened to further studies, of the influence of the environment on virus presence and disease transmission, of the molecular characteristics of viruses that distinguish them from close and distant relatives and the taxonomy that binds them all, of diagnostic studies leading to early treatment, of the development of vaccines, and of the remarkable array of viruses that have already been recognized, some causing dreadful and shocking illnesses, some not known to cause illness at all. Viruses are the focus of the need for such a book, yellow fever virus, of course, but Ebola, Marburg, West Nile, and dengue viruses, the equine encephalitis viruses, hantaviruses and arenaviruses of rodents and humans, and newly recognized viruses of importance to humans, livestock, and wild animals. These viruses are reported by newspapers and public media but after a week or two, their names disappear from the public eye, replaced by newer stories of health problems. However, the viruses themselves do not disappear and physicians, veterinarians, and other scientists continue to investigate them in exotic locations, often at considerable risk to their own health and well-being. This book tells their communal story, the story of medical history, entomology, vector-borne diseases, virology, epidemiology and related fascinating but little recognized disciplines Interweaving his own personal stories of the strengths, weaknesses, and eccentricities of individualistic, multidisciplinary people, those who have been involved in these studies for the past more than 100 years, Calisher has written a readable and humorous memoir, full of anecdotal comments but supported by documentation and references. This book is readable by lay and professional people alike, and is written to provide students at any level, clinicians, educators, administrators, and societal historians with the background they need and want. The book is essential for anyone with a love of history or someone who is looking for knowledge that will put the pieces together.
Download or read book Bellevue written by David Oshinsky and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospital that charts the turbulent rise of American medicine. Bellevue Hospital, on New York City's East Side, occupies a colorful and horrifying place in the public imagination: a den of mangled crime victims, vicious psychopaths, assorted derelicts, lunatics, and exotic-disease sufferers. In its two and a half centuries of service, there was hardly an epidemic or social catastrophe—or groundbreaking scientific advance—that did not touch Bellevue. David Oshinsky, whose last book, Polio: An American Story, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize, chronicles the history of America's oldest hospital and in so doing also charts the rise of New York to the nation's preeminent city, the path of American medicine from butchery and quackery to a professional and scientific endeavor, and the growth of a civic institution. From its origins in 1738 as an almshouse and pesthouse, Bellevue today is a revered public hospital bringing first-class care to anyone in need. With its diverse, ailing, and unprotesting patient population, the hospital was a natural laboratory for the nation's first clinical research. It treated tens of thousands of Civil War soldiers, launched the first civilian ambulance corps and the first nursing school for women, pioneered medical photography and psychiatric treatment, and spurred New York City to establish the country's first official Board of Health. As medical technology advanced, "voluntary" hospitals began to seek out patients willing to pay for their care. For charity cases, it was left to Bellevue to fill the void. The latter decades of the twentieth century brought rampant crime, drug addiction, and homelessness to the nation's struggling cities—problems that called a public hospital's very survival into question. It took the AIDS crisis to cement Bellevue's enduring place as New York's ultimate safety net, the iconic hospital of last resort. Lively, page-turning, fascinating, Bellevue is essential American history.
Book Synopsis Epidemic Invasions by : Mariola Espinosa
Download or read book Epidemic Invasions written by Mariola Espinosa and published by . This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Epidemic Invasions' sheds an intriguing new light on the history of U.S. relations with Cuba. In 1897, Yellow Fever threatened the southern U.S., causing panic & economic catastrophe. In response, the U.S. government began to take measures to control the perceived threat from Cuba, where this epidemic had first erupted.
Book Synopsis Bullets and Bacilli by : Vincent J. Cirillo
Download or read book Bullets and Bacilli written by Vincent J. Cirillo and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work focuses primarily on military medicine during this conflict. Historian Vincent J. Cirillo argues that there is a universal element of military culture that stifles medical progress. This war gave army medical officers an opportunity to introduce to the battlefield new medical technology, including the X-ray, aseptic surgery and sanitary systems derived from the germ theory. With few exceptions, however, their recommendations were ignored almost completely.
Book Synopsis Bring Out Your Dead by : J. H. Powell
Download or read book Bring Out Your Dead written by J. H. Powell and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1793 a disastrous plague of yellow fever paralyzed Philadelphia, killing thousands of residents and bringing the nation's capital city to a standstill. In this psychological portrait of a city in terror, J. H. Powell presents a penetrating study of human nature revealing itself. Bring Out Your Dead is an absorbing account, form the original sources, of an infamous tragedy that left its mark on all it touched.
Download or read book Fever Season written by Jeanette Keith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the 1878 yellow fever epidemic documents how it killed more than 18,000 people in the American South, tracing its particularly catastrophic impact in Memphis, Tennessee, while noting the heroic efforts of people who remained behind to help.
Download or read book Necropolis written by Kathryn Olivarius and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: A rising necropolis -- Patriotic fever -- Danse macabre -- Immunocapital -- Public health, private acclimation -- Denial, delusion, and disunion -- Incumbent arrogance -- Epilogue: Fever and folly.
Download or read book To Catch a Virus written by John Booss and published by ASM Press. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expert storytellers weave together the science, technological advances, medical urgencies, and human stories that chronicle the development of the field of diagnostic virology. Follows a historical discoveries that defined viruses and their roles in infectious diseases over a century of developments, epidemics, and molecular advances, and continuing into the 21st century with AIDS, HIV, and a future that in no way resembles the past. Features the great names and personalities of diagnostic virology, their contributions, their associations, and their challenges to prove findings that some considered fantasy. Describes how scientists applied revolutionary technologies, studying viruses, first in animal models and tissue culture and progressing to molecular and genetic techniques. Appeals to the pioneer and adventure-seeker who is interested in how a scientific field evolves.
Download or read book Yellow Fever Studies written by and published by Beaufort Books. This book was released on 1977 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis WALTER REED AND YELLOW FEVER by : HOWARD A. KELLY
Download or read book WALTER REED AND YELLOW FEVER written by HOWARD A. KELLY and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Physician to the World by : John Mendinghall Gibson
Download or read book Physician to the World written by John Mendinghall Gibson and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thanks to the sanitation procedures introduced and used so successfully by Gorgas, the deadly yellow fever virtually disappeared from the North American continent, where for centuries it used to strike. This book is a biography of his life and traces his interest in yellow fever and his resulting successful efforts to eradicate it from communities.
