A CENTURY OF MEDICINE IN JACKSONVILLE AND DUVAL COUNTY
CONTENTS 1 FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE IN 19TH-CENTURY BRITAIN: FROM EVERYDAY AILMENT TO ANIMAL PLAGUE 1 FMD STRIKES 1 JOHN GAMGEE AND THE DISEASED MEAT PROBLEM 6 THE CATTLE PLAGUE EPIDEMIC, 1865–1867 10 FMD BECOMES A PLAGUE 14 2 THE POLITICS OF PLAGUE: HOME RULE FOR IRELAND, 1912–1923 20 THE IRISH QUESTION 20 GETTING TO GRIPS WITH FMD 27 3 THE EPIDEMICS OF 1922–1924 32 OVERVIEW 32 THE CHESHIRE EXPERIENCE, 1923–1924 36 A COUNTRY UNDER SIEGE 40 RESOLUTION AND AFTERMATH 47 4 EFFECTS ON THE ANGLO–ARGENTINE MEAT TRADE, 1924–1939 51 THE RISE OF THE INTERNATIONAL MEAT TRADE 51 SUSPICIONS AROUSED? 53 THE ARGENTINE REACTION 60 TWISTED SCIENCE 63 5 THE SCIENCE, 1912–1958 68 THE BIRTH OF SCIENTIFIC MEDICINE? 68 STARTING OUT: FMD RESEARCH IN BRITAIN AND EUROPE UP TO 70 DOCTORS, VETS AND THE PURPOSE OF SCIENTIFIC ENQUIRY 74 KEEPING FMD OUT, 1924–1938 81 A WARTIME THREAT 84 THE COLD WAR AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS RESEARCH 87 6 THE 1951–1952 VACCINATION CONTROVERSY 92 FMD RETURNS 92 CALLS TO VACCINATE 95 THE MINISTRY STANDS FIRM 97 THE DISPUTE CONTINUES 101 THE GOWERS COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY 104 7 THE 1967–1968 EPIDEMIC 108 SETTING THE SCENE 108 THE VIEW FROM THE GROUND 110 THE VACCINATION QUESTION 116 TO IMPORT OR NOT TO IMPORT? THE MEAT QUESTION 119 POST-MORTEM AND AFTERMATH 126 8 FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE, 131 FIGHTING FMD, 1968–2000 131 EPIDEMIC,