- Bib ID:
- 400512
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Daniel, Thomas M
- Description:
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- Rochester, NY, USA : University of Rochester Press, 1997
- viii, 296 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 1878822969 (alkaline paper)
- 1580460704 (paperback)
- Summary:
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Tuberculosis was once the feared "White Plague." Today, with sanatoria closed and a battery of drugs available to fight it, TB may seem to be on the way out. The grim facts tell a different story. Captain of Death: The Story of Tuberculosis recounts the early evidence of the disease, the stories of some noteable people who suffered from it, the work of those who cared for afflicted patients, and the struggle of researchers to understand it and develop effective treatments for it. The book brings to the reader a clear understanding of the past, present, and future of the disease John Bunyon called "Captain among these Men of Death" in 1660.
- Full contents:
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- Pt. I. Consumption: Tuberculosis Through the Ages. 1. An Egyptian Girl; A Peruvian Boy. 2. Kos, Alexandria, and Rome. 3. The Middle Ages and Beyond. 4. The Relentless Tide. 5. The Hope for Eradication. 6. The Failed Conquest
- Pt. II. The Great White Plague: The Infectious Nature of Tuberculosis. 7. Etude. 8. Animalcula. 9. Robert Koch and the Tubercle Bacillus. 10. A Distinctly Preventable Disease. 11. Heroes
- Pt. III. Of Languor and Lymphocytes: Susceptibility and Resistance to Tuberculosis. 12. Two Men of Letters. 13. Brownish Transparent Liquid. 14. A Family Affair. 15. Bacille Calmette-Guerin. 16. Four Cornerposts of Science. 17. The Cursed Duet
- Pt. IV. Magic Mountains and Magic Bullets: The Treatment of Tuberculosis. 18. Victories. 19. Wolf's Liver and Sea Voyages. 20. False Hope. 21. Places Apart. 22. Collapse and Mutilation. 23. Magic Bullet. 24. Microbe Killers. 25. One One-Hundredth of an Ounce of Prevention
- Pt. V. Epilogue. 26. Hope in Haiti.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [252]-287) and index.
- Subject:
- Tuberculosis -- History
- Also Titled:
- Story of tuberculosis
- Copyright:
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