| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
viii, 308 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Map on lining papers. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-296) and index. |
| Contents |
I: The American plague -- II: Memphis, 1878 -- Carnival -- Bright canary yellow -- The doctors -- A city of corpses -- The destroying angel -- Greatly exaggerated -- The Havana commission -- Reparations -- III: Cuba, 1900 -- A splendid little war -- Siboney -- An unlikely hero -- A meeting of minds -- The yellow fever commission -- Insects -- Vivisection -- Did the mosquito do it? -- Guinea pig no. 1 -- Camp Lazear -- A new century -- Blood -- The etiology of yellow fever -- Retribution -- The mosquito -- IV: United States, present day -- Epidemic -- A return to Africa -- The vaccine -- History repeats itself -- Elmwood. |
| Subject |
Yellow fever -- History.
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Yellow fever -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History.
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| ISBN |
0425212025 alkaline paper |
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9780425212028 alkaline paper |
| Standard No. |
9780425212028 |
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