Plagues and Poxes: The Impact of Human History on Epidemic Disease

264 Pages·2004·4.39 MB·English

by  Alfred Jay Bollet

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P L A G U E S & P O X E S
T H E I M PAC T
O F H U M A N H I S T O RY
O N E P I D E M I C D I S E A S E
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P L A G U E S & P O X E S
T H E I M PA C T
O F H U M A N H I S T O RY
O N E P I D E M I C D I S E A S E
Alfred Jay Bollet, M.D.
NEWYORK
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bollet, Alfred J.
Plagues & poxes : the impact of human history on epidemic disease /
Alfred Jay Bollet.— 2nd ed.
p. ; cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 1-888799-79-X (hardcover)
1. Epidemiology—History.
[DNLM: 1. Disease Outbreaks—history. 2. Communicable
Diseases—history. 3. Epidemiology—history. WA 11.1 B691p 2004] I.
Title: Plagues and poxes. II. Title.
RA649.B65 2004
614.4’9—dc21
2003011450
Made in the United States of America
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T A
O U D R E Y
“We’ve known so much of happiness,
We’ve had our cup of joy,
And memory is one gift of God
That death cannot destroy.”
From “Should You Go First,” by AK Rowswell, in Poems that Live Forever, ed. by Hazel Felleman,
Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1965.
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C K N O W L E D G M E N T S
I
would like to thank the publisher of Demos Medical Publishing, Dr. Diana
M. Schneider, for her assistance and interest in this work. She has been an
enormous help both as advisor and editor.
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