Fatal thirst diabetes in Britain until insulin / by Elizabeth Lane Furdell.

Author/creator Furdell, Elizabeth Lane
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLeiden ; Boston : Brill,
Descriptionxii, 194 p. ; 25 cm.
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SeriesHistory of science and medicine library, 1872-0684 ; v. 9
History of science and medicine library ; v. 9. ^A788057
Contents Introduction : the "biography" of a disease and its sufferers -- The early history of diabetes from classical times to the Renaissance : diagnoses and descriptions -- Renaissance diabetics and their doctors : changing treatments for revolutionary times -- Early modern medicine in print and diabetes : published advice and imagery -- Diabetes and seventeenth-century medical controversy -- Reconstructing diabetic life in early modern England -- Diabetic specialists and their patients in the long nineteenth century : competition for a cure -- After insulin : the lingering effects of an incurable disease.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [169]-190) and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2008038914
ISBN9789004172500 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN9004172505 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN2889961

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