Blood and Germs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blood and Germs write by Gail Jarrow. This book was released on 2020-10-13. Blood and Germs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Acclaimed author Gail Jarrow, recipient of a 2019 Robert F. Sibert Honor Award, explores the science and grisly history of U.S. Civil War medicine, using actual medical cases and first-person accounts by soldiers, doctors, and nurses. The Civil War took the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans and left countless others with disabling wounds and chronic illnesses. Bullets and artillery shells shattered soldiers' bodies, while microbes and parasites killed twice as many men as did the battles. Yet from this tragic four-year conflict came innovations that enhanced medical care in the United States. With striking detail, this nonfiction book reveals battlefield rescues, surgical techniques, medicines, and patient care, celebrating the men and women of both the North and South who volunteered to save lives.
Blood and Germs
Blood and Germs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blood and Germs write by Gail Jarrow. This book was released on 2020. Blood and Germs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores the science and grisly history of U.S. Civil War medicine, using actual medical cases and first-person accounts.
Bloodletting and Germs
Bloodletting and Germs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bloodletting and Germs write by Thomas Rosenthal. This book was released on 2020-08-21. Bloodletting and Germs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When competing medical society doctors rebuff his license application, Dr. Jabez Allen conceals his medical practice by opening the first drugstore in rural New York. Dr. Allen and his Underground Railroad activist wife endure a lifetime defined by service, and challenged by loss. Consumption, Anthrax, Cholera, The Civil War and Melancholia. Dr. Allen cares for poor and wealthy alike, including the daughter of a U.S. president, and never abandons the motto painted on his first office window, "No Cure, No Pay." Dr. Jabez Allen's drugstore opened in 1834 and still serves the village of East Aurora, NY. Based on actual events, 'Bloodletting and Germs' is the memoir Dr. Allen might have written.
Killer Germs
Killer Germs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Killer Germs write by Barry E. Zimmerman. This book was released on 2002-09-27. Killer Germs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Everything readers ever wanted to know about deadly viruses, killer parasites, flesh-eating microbes, and other lifethreatening beasties but were afraid to ask What disease, known as "the White Death" has killed 2 billion people, and counting? What fatal disease lurks undetected in air conditioners and shower heads, waiting to become airborne? How lethal is the Ebola virus, and will there ever be a cure for it? How do you catch flesh-eating bacteria? Killer Germs takes readers on a fascinating (sometimes horrifying) journey into the amazing world of viruses, bacteria, protozoa, fungi, and worms and explores the roles they have played in shaping the course of human history. From biblical plagues, to the AIDS crisis, to supergerms of the future, this updated and revised edition of the original covers the whole gamut of diseases that have threatened humanity since its origins. It also includes a new chapter on the history of bioterrorism and the deplorable role it has played and is likely to play in the phenomenal diversity of diseases.
Blood Rites
Blood Rites - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blood Rites write by Barbara Ehrenreich. This book was released on 2020-01-07. Blood Rites available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A New York Times Notable BookAn ALA Notable Book "Original and illuminating." --The Washington Post What draws our species to war? What makes us see violence as a kind of sacred duty, or a ritual that boys must undergo to "become" men? Newly reissued in paperback, Blood Rites takes readers on an original journey from the elaborate human sacrifices of the ancient world to the carnage and holocaust of twentieth-century "total war." Ehrenreich sifts deftly through the fragile records of prehistory and discovers the wellspring of war in an unexpected place -- not in a "killer instinct" unique to the males of our species, but in the blood rites early humans performed to reenact their terrifying experiences of predation by stronger carnivores. Brilliant in conception and rich in scope, Blood Rites is a monumental work that continues to transform our understanding of the greatest single threat to human life.
