Knowledge in the Time of Cholera The Struggle Over American Medicine in the Nineteenth Century

Vomiting. Diarrhea. Dehydration. Death. Confusion. In 1832, the arrival of cholera in the United States created widespread panic throughout the country. For the rest of the century, epidemics swept through American cities and towns like wildfire, killing thousands. Physicians of all stripes offered conflicting answers to the cholera puzzle, ineffectively responding with opiates, bleeding, quarantines, and all manner of remedies, before the identity of the dreaded infection was consolidated under the germ theory of disease some sixty years later.

ISBN:	9780226017464
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Imprint:	The University of Chicago Press
Published date:	11 Apr 2013
DEWEY:	614.514097309034
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xiii, 307
Weight:	567g
Height:	229mm
Width:	152mm
Spine width:	23mm

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