Bellevue : three centuries of medicine and mayhem at America's most storied hospital
Title:
Bellevue : three centuries of medicine and mayhem at America's most storied hospital
Author:
Oshinsky, David M., 1944- author.
ISBN:
9780385523363
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Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
387 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Contents:
Beginnings -- Hosack's vision -- The great epidemic -- Teaching medicine -- A hospital in war -- "Hives of sickness and vice" -- The bellevue ambulance -- Bellevue venus -- Nightingales -- Germ theory -- A tale of two presidents -- The mad house -- The new metropolis -- Cause of death -- The shocking truth -- Survival -- Aids -- Rock bottom -- Sandy -- Rebirth.
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