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- catalog abstract "The authors examine the social aspects of the TB epidemic, along with some of the biological factors. They show how TB was romanticized, how it was portrayed as a demon coming to rob the healthy of life, and how it sparked scientific invention - in particular the stethoscope.".
- catalog contributor b6662020.
- catalog contributor b6662021.
- catalog created "[1952]".
- catalog date "1952".
- catalog date "[1952]".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "[1952]".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. [241]-269.".
- catalog description "The authors examine the social aspects of the TB epidemic, along with some of the biological factors. They show how TB was romanticized, how it was portrayed as a demon coming to rob the healthy of life, and how it sparked scientific invention - in particular the stethoscope.".
- catalog description "pt. 1. The white plague in the nineteenth century. The captain of all the men of death -- Death warrant for Keats -- Flight from the north winds -- Contagion and heredity -- Consumption and the Romantic age -- pt. 2. The causes of tuberculosis. Phthisis, consumption and tubercles -- Percussion, auscultation and the Unitarian theory of phthisis -- The germ theory of tuberculosis -- Infection and disease -- pt. 3. Cure and prevention of tuberculosis. The evaluation of therapeutic procedures -- Treatment and natural resistance -- Drugs, vaccines and public health measures -- Healthy living and sanatoria -- pt. 4. Tuberculosis and society. The evolution of epidemics -- Tuberculosis and industrial civilization -- Tuberculosis and social technology.".
- catalog extent "viii, 277 p.".
- catalog hasFormat "White plague.".
- catalog isFormatOf "White plague.".
- catalog issued "1952".
- catalog issued "[1952]".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boston, Little, Brown".
- catalog relation "White plague.".
- catalog subject "616.24609".
- catalog subject "RC310 .D82".
- catalog subject "Tuberculosis History.".
- catalog subject "Tuberculosis Popular Works.".
- catalog subject "Tuberculosis history".
- catalog subject "WF 200 D817w 1952".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1. The white plague in the nineteenth century. The captain of all the men of death -- Death warrant for Keats -- Flight from the north winds -- Contagion and heredity -- Consumption and the Romantic age -- pt. 2. The causes of tuberculosis. Phthisis, consumption and tubercles -- Percussion, auscultation and the Unitarian theory of phthisis -- The germ theory of tuberculosis -- Infection and disease -- pt. 3. Cure and prevention of tuberculosis. The evaluation of therapeutic procedures -- Treatment and natural resistance -- Drugs, vaccines and public health measures -- Healthy living and sanatoria -- pt. 4. Tuberculosis and society. The evolution of epidemics -- Tuberculosis and industrial civilization -- Tuberculosis and social technology.".
- catalog title "The white plague; tuberculosis, man and society, by Rene and Jean Dubos.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".