A history of preventive medicine

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1. In the beginning

2. Moses and the Hebraic health code

3. Health in the Golden Age of Greece

4. The Romans

pioneers of public sanitation

5. Darkness over Europe and the light in the East

6. Pilgrims and crusaders

7. The school of Salerno and sensible living

8. They shall cry, "unclean"

9. The plague

10. Other medieval epidemics and diseases

11. The Renaissance and the rebirth of medicine

12. Syphilis-scourge of the Renaissance and a new concept of contagion

13. The scientific and medical advances of the Seventeenth Century

14. Van Leeuwenhoek's tiny little beasties and the invisible world of the microscopists

15. The bookeeping of life and the birth of vital statistics

16. Plague-fire-people and progress

17. The Eighteenth Century

18. The story of smallpox and the birth of preventive medicine

19. The conquest of scurvy and the advance of naval and military hygiene

20. Late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Century: foundation stones for modern public health and preventive medicine

21. The lady with the lamp

22. Doctors! wash your hands

23. Pasteur and the birth of bacteriology

24. The golden age of medical discovery

25. Milk-borne diseases

26. The water-borne and fecal discharge diseases

27. Cholera and typhoid

28. Biting bugs, the history of arthropod-borne disease

29. Lice, fleas and DDT

30. Winged death, the story of malaria and yellow fever

31. The great white plague

32. Gonorrhea-crippler of men, wrecker of women and blinder of babies

33. Diphtheria-killer of children

34. Polio prevention

35. The deficiency diseases

36. Recent progres and promise for the future