The Kansas City meningitis epidemic, 1911-1913 : violent and not imagined / Margaret R. O'Leary, MD [and] Dennis S. O'Leary. MD.
- O'Leary, Margaret R.
- Date:
- [2019]
- Books
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Description
... "Two physician authors present the dramatic medical history of a monstrous midwestern disease epidemic. The authors bring the events to startling life by skillfully drawing on original texts that evoke the resolute efforts of the Kansas City medical, nursing, and health department communitites to care for the horribly striken while innoculating the still well to prevent spread of the epidemic"--Page [4] of jacket cover.
Publication/Creation
Bloomington, IN : iUniverse, [2019]
Physical description
xiii, 265 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Notes
"iUniverse rev. date: 02/15/2019"--Title page verso.
Contents
A brief history of cerebrospinal meningitis and its treatment, 1805-1908 -- A hospital and health board for Kansas City, 1908-1911 -- The Cozy, Fox, and Swan rooming houses, January 1912 -- Dr. Luscher's "Imaginitis," February 1912 -- A dire serum shortage, March 1912 -- A flood of mighty waters, April-July 1912 -- A serum farm for Kansas City, August 1912-July 1913 -- The epidemic ends, 1913-1914 -- Violent and not imagined.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapter and pages 221-244 and index.
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Location Status History of MedicineFJT.6496.AA9Open shelves
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ISBN
- 153206232X
- 9781532062322