Sanitation in Panama
Author : William Crawford Gorgas
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 38,78 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Havana (Cuba)
ISBN :
Author : William Crawford Gorgas
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 38,78 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Havana (Cuba)
ISBN :
Author : John Mendinghall Gibson
Publisher :
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 37,59 MB
Release : 1950
Category : Physicians
ISBN :
Thanks to the sanitation procedures introduced and used so successfully by Gorgas, the deadly yellow fever virtually disappeared from the North American continent, where for centuries it used to strike. This book is a biography of his life and traces his interest in yellow fever and his resulting successful efforts to eradicate it from communities.
Author : Thomas W. Martin
Publisher :
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 38,54 MB
Release : 2013-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781258989309
This is a new release of the original 1947 edition.
Author : Southern Society of Washington, D.C.
Publisher :
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 45,99 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Obituaries
ISBN :
Author : Southern Society of Washington, D.C.
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 35,16 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Yellow fever
ISBN :
Author : Josiah Gorgas
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 32,80 MB
Release : 1995-08-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0817356029
The Journals of Josiah Gorgas is more than a well-edited version of Gorgas's diaries and journals; Wiggins has interpreted them in full Gorgas family context and in perspective of the times they cover. . . . Wiggins informs with the sort of editorial notes expected of a careful scholar, but she enlightens with wide knowledge of American and southern history.
Author : Franklin Henry Martin
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 14,26 MB
Release : 1929
Category : Medicine, Military
ISBN :
Author : marie d. dorgas
Publisher :
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 28,82 MB
Release : 1924
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Mary Tabb Johnston
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 30,99 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Academic librarians
ISBN :
Author : Robert N. Wiedenmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 17,4 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Science
ISBN : 0197555586
"Insects are seldom mentioned in history texts, yet they significantly shaped human history. The Silken Thread: Five Insects and Their Impacts on History tells the stories of just five insects, tied together by a thread originating in the Silk Roads of Asia, and how they have impacted our world. Silkworms have been farmed to produce silk for millennia, creating a history of empires and cultural exchanges; Silk Roads connected East to West, generating trade centers and transferring ideas, philosophies, and religions. The western honey bee feeds countless people, and their crop pollination is worth billions of dollars. Fleas and lice carried bacteria that caused three major plague pandemics, moved along the Silk Roads from Central Asia. Bacteria carried by insects left their ancient clues as DNA embedded in victims' teeth. Lice caused outbreaks of typhus, especially in crowded conditions such as prisons and concentration camps. Typhus aggravated the effects of the Irish potato famine, and Irish refugees took typhus to North America. Yellow fever was transported to the Americas via the trans-Atlantic slave trade, taking and devaluing the lives of millions of Africans. Slaves were brought to the Americas to reduce labor costs in the cultivation of sugarcane, which was itself transported from south Asia along the Silk Roads. Yellow fever caused panic in the United States in the 1700s and 1800s as the virus and its mosquito vector migrated from the Caribbean. Constructing the Panama Canal required defeating mosquitoes that transmitted yellow fever. The silken thread runs through and ties together these five insects and their impacts on history"--