Natural History of Infectious DiseaseProvides a biological inquiry into the causes and spread of infectious disease and its impact on human survival |
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| 88 | |
EPIDEMICS AND PREVALENCES | 118 |
EVOLUTION AND SURVIVAL OF HOST AND PARASITE | 137 |
DIPHTHERIA | 193 |
INFLUENZA | 202 |
TUBERCULOSIS | 213 |
PLAGUE | 225 |
MALARIA | 232 |
YELLOW FEVER | 242 |
HEPATITIS KURU AND SLOW VIRUSES | 250 |
AN EPILOGUE | 262 |
CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE | 155 |
anttbtottcs | 173 |
HOSPITAL INFECTIONS AND IATROGENIC DISEASE | 186 |
Index | 273 |
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Page 65 - So, naturalists observe, a flea Hath smaller fleas that on him prey.^ And these have smaller fleas to bite "em, And so proceed ad infinitum...
Page 203 - ... shorter time, as it findeth apt bodies for the nature of the disease. The Queen kept her bed six days: there was no appearance of danger, nor many that die of the disease, except some old folks.
Page 129 - Each circle represents an infection, and the connecting lines indicate transfer from one case to the next. Black circles represent infected individuals who fail to infect others. Three periods are shown: the first when practically the whole population is susceptible; the second at the height of the epidemic; and the third at the close, when most individuals are immune. The proportions of susceptible (white) and immune (hatched) individuals are indicated in rectangles beneath the main diagram.
Page 203 - It ys a plague in their heades that have yt, and a sorenes in their stomackes, with a great coughe, that remayneth with some longer, with others shorter...
Page 29 - Every parasite, be it virus, bacterium, worm or insect, is as much the product of adaptive evolution as its host. The mere fact of its present existence is positive evidence of success in the struggle to survive, and surely indicates a long and detailed adaptation to the particular conditions of its parasitism. The host species of every one of these parasites has also succeeded in surviving. In general terms, where two organisms have developed a host-parasite relationship, the survival of the parasite...
Page 29 - Infectious disease is no more and no less than part of that eternal struggle in which every living organism strives to convert all the available foodstuff in its universe into living organisms of its own species.
Page 225 - The symptoms are characteristic enough to make it easy to recognize the disease from classical or medieval descriptions, and we can be sure that the two greatest European pestilences, the plague of Justinian's reign (AD 542) and the Black Death of 1348, were both the result of the spread of the plague...
Page 88 - If we look at the whole process from the point of view of its result, the product, it is plain that both the instruments and the object of labour are means of production and that the labour itself is productive labour.80 78.
Page 202 - In the sixteenth century we find it called 'the new acquaintance' or 'the gentle correction': in the next century 'the new delight' or 'the jolly rant'. In Horace Walpole's letters he speaks of 'these blue plagues'. It was much the same on the Continent. In Germany, one writer referred to it as the 'Galanterie-Krankheit', while the French name still in use. 'la grippe', appears to have had the same meaning as the German - disease a la mode. The term 'influenza', which reached England from Italy,...
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| Titre | Natural History of Infectious Disease |
| Auteurs | Macfarlane Burnet, Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, David O. White |
| Édition | illustrée, réimprimée |
| Éditeur | CUP Archive, 1972 |
| ISBN | 052109688X, 9780521096881 |
| Longueur | 278 pages |
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