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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	English, Peter C.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1999.
Series:	Ebsco e-book purchased.
Subjects:	Rheumatic fever > America > History. Rheumatic fever > Great Britain > History. Electronic resources (E-books) History.
Online Access:	Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:	Loaded electronically. Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community. This was purchased from Ebsco with a single user license.

Table of 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.
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.

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