Author: HEMPEL, SANDRA
Title: The medical detective : John Snow and the mystery of cholera
Description: London : Granta 2006. First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 306 pages; Physical desc. : viii. 306 p. : ill. ports. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [280]-287) and index. Subject: Snow. John (1813-1858) --Studies --Cholera --History --Great Britain. Summary: In the 1820s an unknown. horrifying and deadly disease from Asia swept across Continental Europe. killing millions in its path and throwing the medical profession into chaos. Cholera was a killer with little respect for class or wealth. and when it arrived in Britain. its repercussions rocked Victorian England - from the filthy lanes of the Sunderland quayside and the squalid streets of Soho to the great centres of power: the Privy Council. Whitehall and the Royal Medical Congress. ' 'One man - alone and unrecognized - uncovered the truth behind the pandemic and laid the foundations for the modern. scientific investigation of today's fatal plagues. John Snow was a reclusive doctor. without money or social position. who had the genius to look beyond the conventional wisdom of his day. Serious-minded yet deeply compassionate. he refused to give up his quest to explain cholera. despite being ignored and dismissed by his own profession. ' 'Drawing extensively on nineteenth-century medical. political and personal records. The Medical Detective paints a vivid picture of medical society of the day and is full of colourful characters and practices. from doctors at Westminster Hospital duelling on Clapham Common. to Dickensian children's farms and riotous Victorian anaesthesia parties. Amidst this emerges the dramatic story of an important breakthrough for medical science. and of one individual's determination to use science to help his fellow man. by Sandra Hempel.Weight in Kg appr.:

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