Author: LEE, HELEN S. J (EDITOR)
Title: Dates in Infectious Disease: A Chronological Record of Progress in Infectious Diseases over the Last Millennium
Description: CRC Press, 2002. Hardcover. ISBN: 1842141503. Clean, very good binding, former owner's name inside. Illustrated. Dates begin in 1500 BC with the first know mention of dracunculiasis found in the Turin Payrus; 1157 BC, Ramses V, Egypt, disfigured and died from smallpox; 1492 - Introduction of influencz, smallpox, tuberculosis, and goneorrhead to the Americas. Columbus' arrival in Hispaniola was followed by the death of 8,000,000 inhabitants; 1970, first vaccination for rubella; up to 1998 when Robert Furchgott and others won the Nobel Prize for nitric oxide and the cardio system and up to the year 2000 when New York was affected by bird and mosquito borned West Nile encephalitis, leading to widespread insecticide spraying ; Landmarks in Medicine Series;. G .
Keywords: 1842141503 Communicable Diseases -- History -- Chronology Robert Furchgott Howard Walter Florey Sir William Osler Plagues Vaccinations Epidemics Smallpox -- History Claudius Galen Medicine and Health
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Title: Dates in Infectious Disease: A Chronological Record of Progress in Infectious Diseases over the Last Millennium
Description: CRC Press, 2002. Hardcover. ISBN: 1842141503. Clean, very good binding, former owner's name inside. Illustrated. Dates begin in 1500 BC with the first know mention of dracunculiasis found in the Turin Payrus; 1157 BC, Ramses V, Egypt, disfigured and died from smallpox; 1492 - Introduction of influencz, smallpox, tuberculosis, and goneorrhead to the Americas. Columbus' arrival in Hispaniola was followed by the death of 8,000,000 inhabitants; 1970, first vaccination for rubella; up to 1998 when Robert Furchgott and others won the Nobel Prize for nitric oxide and the cardio system and up to the year 2000 when New York was affected by bird and mosquito borned West Nile encephalitis, leading to widespread insecticide spraying ; Landmarks in Medicine Series;. G .
Keywords: 1842141503 Communicable Diseases -- History -- Chronology Robert Furchgott Howard Walter Florey Sir William Osler Plagues Vaccinations Epidemics Smallpox -- History Claudius Galen Medicine and Health
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- Book number: 23873
- Book number: 23873
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