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Yellow Jack
How Yellow Fever Ravaged America and Walter Reed Discovered Its Deadly Secrets
Pierce, John R.; Writer, James V.
John Wiley & Sons Inc
05/2005
288
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Inglês
9780471472612
15 a 20 dias
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Preface vii
Introduction: The Forgotten Scourge 1
1 Yellow Fever Comes to America 7
2 The Capital Under Siege 23
3 Nothing but a Yellow Fever 34
4 Yellow Fever Moves South 47
5 The Nation Threatened 60
6 Yellow Fever's Odd Couple 75
7 Walter Reed 87
8 Spanish Bullets and Yellow Fever 101
9 The Opportunity of a Lifetime 135
10 "A Soldier's Chances" 148
11 Putting It All Together 165
12 Affirmation 173
13 Presentation 189
14 Recognition 205
15 Historic Application 215
16 Yellow Fever after Walter Reed 224
Epilogue: After Cuba 240
Afterword: Yellow Fever Today 245
Acknowledgments 249
Notes 250
Bibliography 259
Index 271
Illustrations begin on page 123
Introduction: The Forgotten Scourge 1
1 Yellow Fever Comes to America 7
2 The Capital Under Siege 23
3 Nothing but a Yellow Fever 34
4 Yellow Fever Moves South 47
5 The Nation Threatened 60
6 Yellow Fever's Odd Couple 75
7 Walter Reed 87
8 Spanish Bullets and Yellow Fever 101
9 The Opportunity of a Lifetime 135
10 "A Soldier's Chances" 148
11 Putting It All Together 165
12 Affirmation 173
13 Presentation 189
14 Recognition 205
15 Historic Application 215
16 Yellow Fever after Walter Reed 224
Epilogue: After Cuba 240
Afterword: Yellow Fever Today 245
Acknowledgments 249
Notes 250
Bibliography 259
Index 271
Illustrations begin on page 123
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Preface vii
Introduction: The Forgotten Scourge 1
1 Yellow Fever Comes to America 7
2 The Capital Under Siege 23
3 Nothing but a Yellow Fever 34
4 Yellow Fever Moves South 47
5 The Nation Threatened 60
6 Yellow Fever's Odd Couple 75
7 Walter Reed 87
8 Spanish Bullets and Yellow Fever 101
9 The Opportunity of a Lifetime 135
10 "A Soldier's Chances" 148
11 Putting It All Together 165
12 Affirmation 173
13 Presentation 189
14 Recognition 205
15 Historic Application 215
16 Yellow Fever after Walter Reed 224
Epilogue: After Cuba 240
Afterword: Yellow Fever Today 245
Acknowledgments 249
Notes 250
Bibliography 259
Index 271
Illustrations begin on page 123
Introduction: The Forgotten Scourge 1
1 Yellow Fever Comes to America 7
2 The Capital Under Siege 23
3 Nothing but a Yellow Fever 34
4 Yellow Fever Moves South 47
5 The Nation Threatened 60
6 Yellow Fever's Odd Couple 75
7 Walter Reed 87
8 Spanish Bullets and Yellow Fever 101
9 The Opportunity of a Lifetime 135
10 "A Soldier's Chances" 148
11 Putting It All Together 165
12 Affirmation 173
13 Presentation 189
14 Recognition 205
15 Historic Application 215
16 Yellow Fever after Walter Reed 224
Epilogue: After Cuba 240
Afterword: Yellow Fever Today 245
Acknowledgments 249
Notes 250
Bibliography 259
Index 271
Illustrations begin on page 123
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