The strange case of the Broad Street pump : John Snow and the mystery of cholera
Title:
The strange case of the Broad Street pump : John Snow and the mystery of cholera
Author:
Hempel, Sandra.
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Uniform Title:
Medical detective
Publication Information:
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]
©2007
Physical Description:
viii, 321 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
General Note:
Originally published: The medical detective. London. Granta, 2006.
Language:
English
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction : The long journey -- country holds its breath -- desperate search -- It's here -- surgeon's apprentice -- London training -- very peculiar man -- shameful state of affairs -- little light -- Sensation -- grand experiment -- plague on their houses -- big idea -- Proof positive -- Euglenae and red cotton -- verdicts -- End game -- Epilogue -- Afterword -- Bibliographic essay -- Sources and background material -- Index.
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ISBN:
9780520250499
Format :
Book
