Profiles in medical history / by Glen M. Bruss.

Pittsburgh, Penn. : Dorrance Publishing, 1998-

volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm

Vol. 1. Goliath of Gath (1050-1000 B.C.) : giantism and acromegaly -- Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.) : malaria -- Andrea Pisano (1290-1348) : the black death (the bubonic plague) -- Cesare Borgia (1475-1507) : syphilis -- Cuitlahuac (1470?-1520) : smallpox -- Vitus Bering (1680-1741) : scurvy (the clamity of sailors) -- John Keats (1795-1821 : tuberculosis (the great white plague) -- William Henry Harrison (1733-1841) : bacterial pneumonia (Captain of the men of death) -- Alexis Nicolaivich Romanov (1904-1918) : hemophilia -- Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934) : leukemia.