Rheumatic fever in America and Britain : a biological, epidemiological, and medical history / Peter C. English.

Author/creator English, Peter C.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©1999.
Descriptionxx, 257 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects
Rheumatic Fever--history. --Great Britain.
Rheumatic Fever--history. --United States.
Rheumatic Fever--epidemiology. --history. --Great Britain.
Rheumatic Fever--epidemiology. --hsitory. --United States.
Rheumatic Fever x history--physiopathology. --Great Britain.
Rheumatic Fever--physiopathology. --history. --United States.

Contents Pt. I. The emergence of rheumatic fever in the nineteenth century -- Ch. 1. The new face of rheumatism, 1798-1840 -- Ch. 2. Acute rheumatism and hospitals, 1840-1880 -- Ch. 3. Walter Butler Cheadle and the "typical case," 1880-1890 -- Pt. II. The clinical and scientific challenges of an evolving disease -- Ch. 4. Rheumatic fever as sepsis, 1890-1920 -- Ch. 5. Clinical Management, 1890-1925 -- Ch. 6. Allergy, heredity, environment, and the emergence of the streptococcus, 1925-1945 -- Pt. III. The disappearance of rheumatic fever in the twentieth century
Contents Ch. 7. From acute to chronic, 1925-1945 -- Ch. 8. At the bedside, 1925-1945 -- Ch. 9. Penicillin, cortisone, and heart surgery, 1945-1965 -- Ch. 10. The waning of rheumatic fever : molecular biology, epidemiology, and history, 1945-1965.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 173-236) and index.
LCCN 99014094
ISBN0813527104 (alk. paper) :

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