Author: John Clark
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Category : Fever
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Observations on the Diseases in Long Voyages to Hot Countries and Particularly on Those which Prevail in the East Indies
Author: John Clark
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fever
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fever
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Observations on the Diseases in Long Voyages to Hot Countries
Author: John Clark
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Category : Diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Publisher:
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Category : Diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Observations on the Diseases in Long Voyages to Hot Countries, and particularly on those which prevail in the East Indies
Author: John CLARK (M.D., of Newcastle.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Observations on the Diseases in Long Voyages to Hot Countries and Particularly on Those which Prevail in the East-Indies
Author: John Clark
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Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Observations on Fevers, Especially Those of the Continued Type
Author: John Clark
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Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Medical and Philosophical Commentaries
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Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Languages : en
Pages : 472
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The Vitamin A Story
Author: R.D. Semba
Publisher: Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers
ISBN: 331802189X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This book shows how vitamin A deficiency – before the vitamin was known to scientists – affected millions of people throughout history. It is a story of sailors and soldiers, penniless mothers, orphaned infants, and young children left susceptible to blindness and fatal infections. We also glimpse the fortunate ones who, with ample vitamin A-rich food, escaped this elusive stalker. Why were people going blind and dying? To unravel this puzzle, scientists around the world competed over the course of a century. Their persistent efforts led to the identification of vitamin A and its essential role in health. As a primary focus of today’s international public health efforts, vitamin A has saved hundreds of thousands of lives. But, we discover, they could save many more were it not for obstacles erected by political and ideological zealots who lack a historical perspective of the problem. Although exhaustively researched and documented, this book is written for intellectually curious lay readers as well as for specialists. Public health professionals, nutritionists, and historians of science and medicine have much to learn from this book about the cultural and scientific origins of their disciplines. Likewise, readers interested in military and cultural history will learn about the interaction of health, society, science, and politics. The author’s presentation of vitamin A deficiency is likely to become a classic case study of health disparities in the past as well as the present.
Publisher: Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers
ISBN: 331802189X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This book shows how vitamin A deficiency – before the vitamin was known to scientists – affected millions of people throughout history. It is a story of sailors and soldiers, penniless mothers, orphaned infants, and young children left susceptible to blindness and fatal infections. We also glimpse the fortunate ones who, with ample vitamin A-rich food, escaped this elusive stalker. Why were people going blind and dying? To unravel this puzzle, scientists around the world competed over the course of a century. Their persistent efforts led to the identification of vitamin A and its essential role in health. As a primary focus of today’s international public health efforts, vitamin A has saved hundreds of thousands of lives. But, we discover, they could save many more were it not for obstacles erected by political and ideological zealots who lack a historical perspective of the problem. Although exhaustively researched and documented, this book is written for intellectually curious lay readers as well as for specialists. Public health professionals, nutritionists, and historians of science and medicine have much to learn from this book about the cultural and scientific origins of their disciplines. Likewise, readers interested in military and cultural history will learn about the interaction of health, society, science, and politics. The author’s presentation of vitamin A deficiency is likely to become a classic case study of health disparities in the past as well as the present.
Bibliography of the History of Medicine
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1158
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1158
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Catalogue of Books Added to the Library of Congress
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Languages : en
Pages : 918
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Languages : en
Pages : 918
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A catalogue of medical books, chiefly those upon diseases of seamen, as well as those incident to hot climates and in long voyages: which are sold by J. Murray, No 32, Fleet Street, London
Author: John Murray (Firm)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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Languages : en
Pages : 8
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