TYPHUS FEVER: PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO SERBIAN EPIDEMIC

By SUSAN MILLER

C O N T E N T S INTRODUCTION UNINTENTIONAL CAUSES OF EPIDEMIC DISEASES THE IMPACT OF HUMAN HISTORY ON DISEASE PART ONE INFECTIOUS DISEASES BUBONIC PLAGUE THE PROTOTYPE OF PANDEMIC DISASTERS THE “LITTLE FLIES” THAT BROUGHT DEATH, PART MALARIA OR THE BURNING AGUE YELLOW FEVER SYPHILIS THE GREAT POX THE SMALL POX CHOLERA AND THE WORLDWIDE PLAGUES OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON AND THE BLITZKATARRH POLIOMYELITIS WHY DID FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT GET INFANTILE PARALYSIS AS AN ADULT? PART TWO NONINFECTIOUS DISEASES BERIBERI AN EPIDEMIC AFFECTING RICE-EATERS THE PELLAGRA EPIDEMICS THE THREE M’S PRODUCE THE FOUR D’S SCURVY THE PURPURA NAUTICA RICKETS THE ENGLISH DISEASE GOUT THE DISEASE OF GOOD LIVING PART THREE INTENTIONALLY INDUCED AND NEWLY EMERGING DISEASES ANTHRAX FROM WOOLSORTER’S DISEASE TO TERRORISM BOTULISM FROM BAD FOOD TO TERRORISM THE SARS EPIDEMIC A NEW DISEASE RETRACES THE EXPERIENCE WITH OLDER DISEASES