02180nam a22003374a 4500 ebr10118503 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 030516s2004 nyua sb 001 0 eng 2003011450 188879979X (pbk.) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)614852064 RA649 .B65 2004eb 614.4/9 21 Bollet, Alfred J. Plagues & poxes [electronic resource] : the impact of human history on epidemic disease / Alfred Jay Bollet. Plagues and poxes 2nd ed. New York : Demos, c2004. xii, 237 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references and index. Bubonic 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 Poliomyelitis: 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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Epidemiology History. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10118503 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 217881 217881