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History of Infectious Disease

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1780Tableau historique et raisonné des épidémies catharrales vulgairement dites la grippe; depuis 1510 jusques et y compris celle de 1780.
1824Origines contagii.
1845Geschichte der Lustseuche. Erster Theil. Die Lustseuche im Alterthume.
1855Yellow fever, considered in its historical, pathological, etiological, and therapeutical relations: including a sketch of the disease as it has occurred in Philadelphia from 1699 to 1854, with an examination of the connections between it and the fevers known under the same name in other parts of temperate, as well as in tropical, regions. 2 vols.
1866Asiatic cholera: Its origin, history, and progress, for over two hundred years, and the devastations it has caused in the East and West; Its ravages in Europe and America in 1831-2, in 1848-9, in 1854-5, and in 1865-6 with a full description of the causes, nature, and character of the disease, its means of propagation, whether by the atmosphere or by contagion; its premonitory and distinctive symptoms; the best known means of preventing its attack both in communities and individuals; and the most effectual remedies for it according to the celebrated physicians who have treated It; Together with simple and plain directions for the care of those who from any cause can not obtain medical aid.
1889Jenner and vaccination: A strange chapter of medical history.
1896Der Keuchhusten.
1911Yellow fever: A compilation of various publications. Results of the work of Maj. Walter Reed, Medical Corps, United States Army, and the Yellow Fever Commission. Presented by Mr. Owen.
1931The bibliography of schistosomiasis (bilharziasis).
1931Yellow fever: an epidemiological and historical study of its place of origin. Edited by Laura Armistead Carter and Wade Hampton Frost.
1935Rats, lice and history: being a study in biography, which, after 12 preliminary chapters indispensable for the preparation of the lay reader, deals with the life history of typhus fever.
1937The history of the acute exanthemata.
1943The conquest of epidemic diseases. A chapter in the history of ideas.
1949Bring out your dead: The great plague of yellow fever in Philadelphia in 1793.
1954Kurze Geschichte der Dermatologie und Venereologie und ihre kulturgeschichtliche Spiegelung.
1958A bibliography of internal medicine. Communicable diseases.
1962The cholera years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866.
1963The evolution and eradication of infectious diseases.
1967Schistosomiasis. A bibliography of the world’s literature from 1852 to 1962. 2 vols.
1968Selected papers on the pathogenic rickettsiae. Edited by Nicholas Hahon.
1970Bibliography of ticks and tickborne diseases from Homer (about 800 B.C.) to 31 December, 1969. Vol. 1.
1971A history of poliomyelitis.
1973Schistosomiasis: the evolution of a medical literature. Selected abstracts and citations, 1852-1952.
1977Influenza: The last great plague.
1978Infectious diseases. Prevention and treatment in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
1981Theories of fever from antiquity to the enlightenment. Edited by W. F. Bynum and Vivian Nutton. Medical History, Supplement No. 1.
1982Bibliography of dengue fever and dengue-like illnesses, 1780-1981.
1988Legionnaires disease: Historical perspective.
1990History of AIDS. Emergence and origin of a modern pandemic. Translated by Russell C. Maulitz and Jacalyn Duffin.
1991Science and empire: East Coast Fever in Rhodesia and the Transvaal.
1991Bilharzia: A history of imperial tropical medicine.
1992Enfermedad y sociedad en la crisis colonial del antiguo régimen: Nueva Granada en el tránsito del siglo XVIII al XIX, las epidemias de viruelas.
1992The colonial disease: A social history of sleeping sickness in colonial Zaire, 1900-1940.
1993The Cambridge world history of human disease. Edited by Kenneth F. Kiple [and 12 co-editors].
1993Disease transmission by insects: Its discovery and 90 years of effort to prevent it.
1995The private science of Louis Pasteur.
1996Médecine coloniale et grandes endémies en Afrique 1900-1960. Lèpre, trypanosomiase humaine et onchocercose.
1997A melancholy scene of devastation: The public response to the 1793 Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic. Edited by J. Worth Estes and Billy G. Smith.
1997Rheumatic fever and streptococcal infection: Unraveling the mysteries of a dread disease.
1999Flu: The story of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 and the search for the virus that caused it.
1999Rheumatic fever in America and Britain: A biological, epidemiological, and medical history.
2003Disease in the history of modern Latin America: From malaria to aids. Edited by Diego Armus.
2003The rise of causal concepts of disease: Case histories.
2004Stories in the time of cholera: Racial profiling during a medical nightmare.
2004Anthrax: A history.
2004The great influenza: The epic story of the greatest plague in history.
2005Yellow Jack: How yellow fever ravaged American and Walter Reed discovered its deadly secrets.
2006Les conquêtes de la médecine moderne en Afrique. Edited by Jean-Paul Bado.
2008Antimicrobial drugs: Chronicle of a twentieth century medical triumph.
2009The tainted gift: The disease method of frontier expansion.