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245 10 a| Spreading germs :b| disease theories and medical practice in Britain, 1865-1900 /c| Michael Worboys.;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-315) and index.;

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520 1 a| "Spreading Germs discusses how modern ideas on the bacterial causes of communicable diseases were constructed and spread within the British medical profession in the last third of the nineteenth century. Michael Worboys revises many existing interpretations of this pivotal moment in modern medicine."--BOOK JACKET.;

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Spreading germs : disease theories and medical practice in Britain, 1865-1900 / Michael Worboys.

Author/creator	Worboys, Michael, 1948-
Format	Book
Publication Info	Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Description	xvi, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content	Table of contents
Supplemental Content	Publisher description
Subjects	Public health--Great Britain. --History. --19th century. Social medicine--Great Britain. --History. --19th century. Diseases--Great Britain. --Causes and theories of causation. --History. --19th century. Medicine--Great Britain. --History. --19th century. Public Health--Great Britain. --history. History, Modern 1601- Disease--etiology. --Great Britain. --History, 19th century. Communicable Diseases--Great Britain. --History, 19th century. History, 19th Century Social Medicine--Great Britain. --History, 19th century. United Kingdom

Series	Cambridge history of medicine Cambridge history of medicine. ^A14537
Contents	1. Medical Practice and Disease Theories, c. 1865 -- 2. Veterinary Medicine, the Cattle Plague and Contagion, 1865-1890 -- 3. Germs in the Air: Surgeons, Hospitalism and Sepsis, 1865-1876 -- 4. Something Definite to Guide You in Your Sanitary Precautions: Sanitary Science, Poisons and Contagium Viva, 1866-1880 -- 5. Deeper Than the Surface of the Wound: Surgeons Antisepsis and Asepsis, 1876-1900 -- 6. From Heredity to Infection: Tuberculosis, Bacteriology and Medicine, 1870-1900 -- 7. Preventive Medicine and the 'Bacteriological Era'.
Review	"Spreading Germs discusses how modern ideas on the bacterial causes of communicable diseases were constructed and spread within the British medical profession in the last third of the nineteenth century. Michael Worboys revises many existing interpretations of this pivotal moment in modern medicine."--BOOK JACKET.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-315) and index.
LCCN	00023501
ISBN	9780521773027
ISBN	0521773024

Spreading germs : disease theories and medical practice in Britain, 1865-1900 / Michael Worboys.

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