Rheumatic fever and streptococcal infection : unraveling the mysteries of a dread disease / Benedict...
Rheumatic fever and streptococcal infection : unraveling the mysteries of a dread disease / Benedict...
Rheumatic fever and streptococcal infection : unraveling the mysteries of a dread disease / Benedict F. Massell.
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Boston : Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine ; Cambridge, MA : distributed by Harvard University Press, c1997.
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N616.991/4
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English
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Physical content
xi, 394 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Ch. 1. The Clinical Picture of Rheumatic Fever -- Ch. 2. The Modern Clinical Concept of Rheumatic Fever -- Ch. 3. Background for the Hypothesis of the Hemolytic Streptococcus Etiology of Rheumatic Fever -- Ch. 4. Etiology of Rheumatic Fever: The Hemolytic Streptococcus Hypothesis -- Ch. 5. The Antig...
Ch. 15. Changing Morbidity and Mortality from Rheumatic Fever: Present Status of the Disease.
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Publisher
Boston : Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine ; Cambridge, MA : distributed by Harvard University Press, c1997.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
c1997.
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Summary
This book is an historical review, with documentation, of the development of the clinical picture, etiology, pathogenesis, and prevention of rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease over the past four centuries. It examines the major contributions of both clinicians and investigators to our current understanding of rheumatic fever as a separate...
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Rheumatic fever and streptococcal infection : unraveling the mysteries of a dread disease / Benedict F. Massell.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-377) and index.
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c1997.
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N616.991/4
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74VMbw7DQy3l
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ISBN
0674768779 (cloth)
9780674768772 (cloth)
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616.991
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991000656159702626
