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Holistic Healing

Sanitation in Panama

William Crawford Gorgas

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William Gorgas cleared the mosquito from Havana and Panama and made the great canal possible. His account traces the Reed Board's discoveries about yellow fever and the sanitary war that followed. A landmark record of tropical public health at one of its greatest triumphs. Read how draining the swamps beat a killer.

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27 chapters

  1. 1SANITATION IN PANAMA
  2. 2CONTENTS
  3. 3LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  4. 4CHAPTER I YELLOW FEVER AND THE DISCOVERIES OF ITS TRANSMISSION
  5. 5CHAPTER II THE EXPERIMENTS OF THE REED BOARD
  6. 6CHAPTER III THE DISCOVERIES OF THE REED BOARD
  7. 7CHAPTER IV THE SANITARY BOARD OF HAVANA
  8. 8CHAPTER V SANITARY WORK AT HAVANA
  9. 9CHAPTER VI THE RESULTS ACCOMPLISHED IN HAVANA
  10. 10CHAPTER VII CORRESPONDENCE WITH DR. REED
  11. 11CHAPTER VIII HISTORY OF YELLOW FEVER
  12. 12CHAPTER IX GEOGRAPHICAL LIMITS OF YELLOW FEVER
  13. 13CHAPTER X APPOINTED CHIEF SANITARY OFFICER FOR THE ISTHMUS
  14. 14CHAPTER XI PRELIMINARY ORGANIZATION AND WORK AT PANAMA
  15. 15CHAPTER XII YELLOW-FEVER WORK AT THE ISTHMUS
  16. 16CHAPTER XIII NOMBRE DE DIOS
  17. 17CHAPTER XIV THE WORK OF THE SANITARY INSPECTORS
  18. 18CHAPTER XV THE WORK AT THE HOSPITALS

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