The Conquest of Plague. A Study of the Evolution of Epidemiology. With a Foreword by Sir William Macarthur.
Publication date: 1953
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Oxford, at the Clarendon Press, 1953, 8°, XVI, 478, (2) pp., with 16 Figs., 6 Tafeln, 3 Karten, First Edition! "This book deals, in broad outline, with the age-long evolution of conceptions of the nature of plague. It ends with a brief account of those recent discoveries which have at last enabled man, not only to protect himself against this most ancient and most formidable of epidemic diseases, but even cure most of the victims. It is not a history of plagues epidemics nor a systematic textbook, but a study of the development of human beliefs about the origin of the malady from the era of primitive man to the present day." Preface, Leonard Fabian Hirst (1882-1964) "The author of this treatise, Dr. L. Fabian Hirst, can speak with authority on the subject of plague. During a period of twenty-two years he paid special attention to this disease in various parts of the Middle and Far East, particularly in Ceylon, where he began work in the newly built microbiological laboratory of Colombo in 1912. He at once undertook the systematic bacteriological examination of the city rodents and the study of their ectoparasites, i.e. two years before the first outbreak of plague there. Previously, in 1910, while Assistant Bacteriologist at University College Hospital Medical School, he had made a study of the ectoparasites of London rats in co-operation with his brother, the late Stanley Hirst, Acarinologist to the British Museum (Natural History)." "Most of his researches have been concentrated on the parasitological and preventive aspects of plague. The results have appeared in some twenty publications, including papers in scientific journals, articles in the 'British Encyclopaedia of Medical Practice', and official reports. Unfortunately much published in Ceylon- e.g. his Memoir, 'Researches on the Parasitology of Plague', and his official Report, 'The Protection of the Interior of Ceylon from Plague' -is not readily accessible to readers in Europe." Foreword Garrison & Morton No. 5143.…
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- The Conquest of Plague. A Study of the Evolution of Epidemiology. With a Foreword by Sir William Macarthur.
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- Hirst, Leonard Fabian
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- 1953
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