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From: andyb@dartvax.UUCP (Andy Behrens)
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Subject: Re: Query: books on the history of medicine
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Date: Fri, 6-Apr-84 19:08:20 EST
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The author of "The Century of the Surgeon", mentioned in an earlier
reply, is Ju"rgen Thorwald.

Another book that I would recommend to those interested in the history
of medicine is "Rats, Lice and History", by Hans Zinsser, published
by Little, Brown, and Company (Boston, 1935).  It is primarily about typhus,
but the author talks about epidemiology and many other things as well.
 
The style of the book is rambling and discursive, and somewhat old-fashioned
as well, as may be seen from the full title:

		  - RATS, LICE and HISTORY -

	Being a study in Biography, which after Twelve
	  Preliminary Chapters Indispensable for the
	     Preparation of the Lay Reader, Deals
		   With the Life History of
			 TYPHUS FEVER

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Andy Behrens
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