Lazaretto

Lazaretto

Author: David S. Barnes

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2023-05-09

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 1421446448

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"This book tells the compelling story of public health efforts in 19th-century Philadelphia directed at preventing the outbreak of epidemics of cholera, yellow fever, and other diseases. It is a story about quarantine set against the background of the Philadelphia Lazaretto, the first quarantine house built in the United States, and one of the largest in the world"--


The Elements of Materia Medica and Therapeutics

The Elements of Materia Medica and Therapeutics

Author: Jonathan Pereira

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-01-23

Total Pages: 913

ISBN-13: 1108068456

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This encyclopaedic work, a pioneering text in pharmacology, is reissued here in its revised and expanded fourth edition (1854-7).