Cholera: The Victorian Plague
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Cholera: The Victorian Plague
Book Details
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Category
- Diseases & Physical Ailments
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9781783463503
- ISBN-10
- 1783463503
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ISBN: 1783463503
Author: Thomas, Amanda J.
Condition: New
Discover the story of the disease that devastated the Victorian population, and brought about major changes in sanitation. Drawing on the latest scientific research and a wealth of archival material, Amanda Thomas uses firs-hand accounts, blending personal stories with an overview of the history of the disease and its devastating aftereffects on British society. This fascinating history of a catastrophic disease uncovers forgotten stories from each of the major cholera outbreaks in 1831-3, 1848-9, 1853-4 and 1866.Amanda Thomas reveals that Victorian theories about the disease were often closer to the truth than we might assume, among them the belief that cholera was spread by miasma, or foul air.
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