The Texas meningitis epidemic (1911-1913) : origin of the meningococcal vaccine / Margaret R. O'Leary, MD [and] Dennis S. O'Leary. MD.
- O'Leary, Margaret R.
- Date:
- [2018]
- Books
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Description
... "Two physician authors present the dramatic medical history of a monstrous southwestern disease epidemic. They also describe the development of the intraspinal antimeningitis serum treatment for curing the disease and the meningococcal vaccine for preventing it. The authors bring the events to blazing life by skillfully drawing on original texts that evoke the grit and grace of everyday people who united to vanquish a brutal diseas in early twentieth-century Texas"--Page [4] of jacket cover.
Publication/Creation
Bloomington, IN : iUniverse, [2018]
Physical description
xliv, 328 pages : black and white illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Notes
"iUniverse rev. date: 11/02/2018"--Title page verso.
Contents
A brief history of cerebrospinal meningitis and its treatment, 1805-1908 -- Harbinger: a Texas family falls ill, January 1909 -- A new Texas Health board, 1909-1911 -- Meningitis assaults Dallas, October 1911-January 1912 -- Help from a New York City meningitis expert, January 1912 -- A meningococcal vaccine and a Texas farewell, February 1912 -- The Texas meningitis epidemic grinds on, February-May 1912 -- Meningococcal vaccine trials as hot weather returns, April-August 1912 -- Meningitis visits the Texas state capitol building, February 1913 -- The Texas meningitis epidemic dissipates, February-July 1913 -- A monstrous Texas meningitis epidemic.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapter and pages 273-302 and index.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineFJT.675.AA9Open shelves
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ISBN
- 1532054343
- 9781532054341