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Subject(s)

• Medicine, Preventive [Browse]
• Medicine—History [Browse]

Series

• Routledge revivals. [More in this series]
• Routledge Revivals

Summary note

First published in 1927, this book provides a complete study of the beginnings and early development of preventive medicine. It looks at the subject's underlying principles and discusses the prominent writers of the past. Topics cover infection, plague, science and medicine, poverty and preventive medicine and the prevention of cholera, amongst others.

Notes

First published in 1927 by Bailliere, Tindall and Cox.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Source of description

• Description based on print version record.
• Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Language note

English

Contents

• ""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Original Title Page""; ""Original Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""PREFACE""; ""Table of Contents""; ""CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY""; ""CHAPTER II THEOLOGICAL AND SACERDOTAL OBSESSIONS CONCERNING DISEASE""; ""CHAPTER III THE ESCAPE FROM AND RELASPSE INTO SUPERNATURALISM""; ""CHAPTER IV THE BEGINNINGS OF EMANCIPATION""; ""CHAPTER V STAGES IN AND OBSTACLES TO PROGRESS""; ""CHAPTER VI THE RELATION OF SCIENCE TO MEDICINE""; ""CHAPTER VII THE SLOW SUBVERSION OF AUTHORITY AND INCREMENT OF SCIENCE""
• ""CHAPTER VIII THE GROWTH OF OUR KNOWLEDGE OF INFECTION""""CHAPTER IX EPIDEMIC CONSTITUTIONS AND EPIDEMIOLOGY""; ""CHAPTER X EARLY STRUGGLES AGAINST PLAGUE""; ""CHAPTER XI CONTAGIUM VIVUM""; ""CHAPTER XII SANITATION AND SOCIAL IMPROVEMENT""; ""CHAPTER XIII PROGRESS IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND EARLY PART OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY""; ""CHAPTER XIV POVERTY AND PREVENTIVE MEDICINE""; ""CHAPTER XV THE PREVENTION OF ""FEVER""""; ""CHAPTER XVI THE PREVENTION OF ""FEVER"" (CONTINUED)""; ""CHAPTER XVII THE PREVENTION OF CHOLERA""; ""CHAPTER XVIII DISINFECTION IN PREVENTIVE MEDICINE""
• ""CHAPTER XIX IMMUNIZATION AGAINST INFECTION""""A. Small Pox Inoculation""; ""B. Vaccination""; ""CHAPTER XX THE PREVENTION OF NON-SPECIFIC INFECTION (SEPSIS)""; ""CHAPTER XXI FOOD AND DRINK IN RELATION TO HEALTH""; ""CHAPTER XXII INFANTILE HYGIENE""; ""CHAPTER XXIII MODERN PREVENTIVE MEDICINE""; ""INDEX OF PROPER NAMES""; ""INDEX OF SUBJECTS""

ISBN

• 1-315-69545-6
• 1-317-44299-7

OCLC

• 958108775
• 929509696

Doi

• 10.4324/9781315695457

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