000			02359cam a22003734a 4500
005			20081205093420.0
008			030516s2004 nyua b 001 0 eng
001			166445
020			_a188879979X
040			_aNEU
050	0	0	_aWA 11.1
082	0	0	_a614.4/9
100	1		_aBollet Alfred J _9273663
245	1	0	_aPlagues & poxes : _bthe impact of human history on epidemic disease / _cAlfred Jay Bollet.
246	3		_aPlagues and poxes
250			_a2nd ed.
260			_aNew York : _bDemos, _c2004.
300			_axii, 237 p. : _bill. ; _c23 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aBubonic plague: the prototype of pandemic disasters -- The "little flies" that brought death, part 1: malaria or the burning ague -- The "little flies" that brought death, part 2: yellow fever -- Syphilis: the great pox -- The smallpox -- Cholera and the worldwide plagues of the nineteenth century -- The great influenza pandemic of 1918-1919: President Woodrow Wilson and the Blitzkatarrh
505	0		_aPoliomyelitis: why did Franklin Delano Roosevelt get infantile paralysis as an adult? -- Beriberi: an epidemic affecting rice-eaters -- The pellagra epidemics: the three M's produce the four D's -- Scurvy: the purpura nautica -- Dying for a cigar? how about a cigarette?: smoking and epidemic cancer: a story of two presidents and a prince -- Rickets: the English disease -- Gout: the disease of good living -- Anthrax: from woolsorter's disease to terrorism -- Botulism: from bad food to terrorism -- The SARS epidemic: a new disease retraces the experience with older diseases.
650		0	_aEpidemiology _xHistory _9400241
650	1	2	_aDisease Outbreaks _xhistory
650	2	2	_aCommunicable Diseases _xhistory
650	2	2	_aEpidemiology _xhistory
856	4	1	_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip044/2003011450.html
942			_kWA00000111B652004 _cBOOK
999			_c144835